Poems on Pregnancy and Birth
To bear a child. A creature that grows inside you, attached to your familiar body. How is he attached to your invisible soul? My nine months of pregnancy became a time of enlightenment. It was a transformation beyond comparison, an experience of communicating with a new part of me who…
Paper Bride
The story takes place seventy years ago in Palestine under the British Mandate. It focuses on a romantic triangle: Anna, a young medical student from Poland; Imri, an idealistic young Jew from a village in Palestine and Major Charles Timothy Parker, a British pilot stationed at the Royal Air Force…
The Child Behind the Eyes
The Monodrama The Child behind the Eyes tells the story of a mother of a Down's syndrome child on the night before he goes to school. Not everyone is willing to make an effort and see Yotam beyond the special facial features. There are those who cross to the other…
It's been more than a week since Grandma Erika died. I try not to count the days. I may not have seen her every day, but still she was always there. It seems so strange, even now, when I tell myself, logically: it's over. You're not going to see her anymore. I can still feel her though. She'd been so eager to see him go to school, but she didn't make it. Somebody up there messes up the timetable. They don't always make allowances. He's supposed to be going to school today. Supposed to... The teacher will write "Good Morning First Grade" in block letters on the green board. Markings that won't mean a thing to him. It'll be a…