Judih Haggai
Posted: April 12th, 2024, 1:27 pm
October 7, 2023
an email sits unsent in my draft folder
suggesting that she and I collaborate
on another long-distance poetry reading...
then the news
Hamas
war
gunfire
Nir Oz
hostages
...
weeks of pretending to cling to hope
until the word arrives:
she's gone
both she and her beloved
gone
and with her departure
Studio 8
(and its distant cousin, ArcanumCafe)
are not just diminished
but gutted
the magnitude of her presence
not fully evident
until it was removed...
and it's now up to us
to continue watering these sites
with the love that she did
so instinctively
an email sits unsent in my draft folder
suggesting that she and I collaborate
on another long-distance poetry reading...
then the news
Hamas
war
gunfire
Nir Oz
hostages
...
weeks of pretending to cling to hope
until the word arrives:
she's gone
both she and her beloved
gone
and with her departure
Studio 8
(and its distant cousin, ArcanumCafe)
are not just diminished
but gutted
the magnitude of her presence
not fully evident
until it was removed...
and it's now up to us
to continue watering these sites
with the love that she did
so instinctively