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A poem to mark moments in a year of mourning.
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“All that remains to me / of my family’s life in Ukraine… / are four silver kiddush cups…”
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“This is the yahrzeit of the Life we lived before”
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“Blessed burning of yahrzeit candle’
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“I found a pair of dress shoes I had long forgotten / caked with mud / hidden away in the back of my closet”

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“The yarzeit light shines with the light of their souls”

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“Shekhinah – Divine Presence, may You comfort us”

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“To remember these words / not only / when we lie down in slumber”

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