Type: Poem

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You offered to walk with me around Queen Anne Hill, holding my hand / You offered to take me out again. / What was the meaning of these offerings? /
two people hold hands in a grassy field who are wearing identical pink wristbands that say "camping"
“Did they praise / the G-d that brought about their / most brutal response to devastation? / Or did they lament?”
a woman in a devastated field crouched down and holding her hands in fists
“For every grain of salt, a thousand tears…”
In sepia tones, trees reflected in a lake
“Count instead the growing number of cared-fors you have lost…”
a black and white photo
“I almost giggle when I find myself whispering / a long-forgotten prayer.”
a black and white photo of people riding in a subway car
Don’t fret about terms, / she croons. / Just watch the squirrels
watercolor by author of a squirrel sitting on the branch of a tree
Hear, O Israel / the prayer was dance / Adonai Eloheinu / there were no pews
a split image, on the left are trees and grass, on the right are buildings and a road
what does ethereal mean / when is the pool open for lap swimming / what’s happening in the middle east
a person's finger is touching a search bar's magnifying glass icon against a gray background
As I bend / hanging laundry on the drying rack / my back twinges    but just a little
a construction scene in which a person wearing baggy jeans covered in paint and dust is hunched over a bowl, which is next to a bucket, a barrel, and a sack.
You glimmer in my rearview mirror Quick look, there’s no one in the / back of the car. Yet, / you
from inside the car we see a person's hands on a steering wheel and a rearview window, out of the window is pictured a road surrounded by grass and trees on a cloudy day

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