“Love works like any language/ we utter what we can’t reach/ but spend our lives reaching for”

—from Song in Tammuz


An exploration of displacement, desire, and longing.

I have four names,

three tongues, a place

behind my heart where I carry

my earliest dead—”


from “My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem but Does Not Say Auschwitz”