Poetry
… My Mother Died on Shavuot My mother died on Shavuot, at the end of the Counting of the Omer. Her … and shabby wooden signs with names in Hebrew and Latin: the Common Rose, Mediterranean Sage, the Common Shriek, the … My Mother Died on Shavuot …
Poetry
… revel, two good-for-nothings, in our irrelevance; at least come and make no difference with me. 283-283 By Stephen …
Poetry
At Great Point Let the waters of heaven be gathered into one place . . . Genesis 1 Is this the very face of an angry God, or simply his instrument? On calm mornings halos of light hovering over the water . . . a few feathers on the sand as if an angel has …
… Dying Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light, to … Devlin household since 1933, the year that May, his wife, died in childbirth. Molly prayed with absolute faith but … to directions for a sudden and complicated journey. His false teeth were in a glass on the bed table, next to a copy …
Reporting
… Sixty Hours of Terror: “It’s Do or Die” Editor’s Note—This is part two of a four-part series [ … & Tower (Priyam Dhar). III. “It’s Do or Die” November 26, 2008. Late Night. Nariman House. Assistant Commissioner … of the complex, using maps to point out entry and exit points as gunshots above continued to ring out. No matter …
Poetry
A Starting Point I told myself five hundred would be enough to begin to make a plan. In the end, it was over two thousand when we divided the cash we’d kept in a tin. Waiting for him to leave, I moved seamlessly between assuming some mindless Zen …