21st Century Judean

This poem is a meditation on the modern Jewish experience.

Visual design by Charis Nwaozuzu @cupcakethecreator

21^st Century Judean

By Lena Renee Anzarut

the infant in a wicker basket

floats away from the world

i am too young to remember

and too old to forget

the temple is burning

the windows shatter

i am smoke-clogged lungs

and open wounds

the crowd wants blood 

and parchment made tinder

i am the echo of words

i can no longer read

oil spills like ink

wet on the cobblestones

i am a foreigner

in my own home

the candles flicker 

fallen stars in window frames

i am a living museum

memory made flesh

fractured pottery, waits

still buried in the Old City.