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Shalom,in translation:

By Noa Padawer-Blatt

the kibbutz movement fell

in the ‘90s

my mother

a progeny of the fence playgrounds and

stained glass dining halls

danced in the fields

of shattered glass —-

later poppies

on the hills

of red white and blue —-

before the sinkholes by the

ים המלח

dead sea

collapsed

the great mouth of

the bleeding galil

the parachute

a boot

water fought with

children

i visited a kibbutz

two summers ago

heard my name spoken in the

song of my ancestors

poetry of melancholia

and saw the

cinders

of laughter

still there ——

gunshots playing

softly

in the background

 

Noa Padawer-Blatt is a rising junior from Toronto, Ontario. Formerly, she was a staff writer and editor of INKspire, an online literary platform; she is currently the lead editor. Additionally, she attended the launch program of the Kenyon Young Science Writers Workshop, as well as the School of the New York Times for Cultural and Creative Writing. Her poems search to divulge both her heritage and modern issues, and the moments where the two collide.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: February 2019

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