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All tagged cemetery

Dec 12
Dec 12 Moses

Andrea Eisenberg

We three siblings, on a long-awaited pilgrimage, walk up and down aisles and aisles of gravestones, some modern and readable, some old and fallen.

Jan 27
Jan 27 Mother Tongue

Guests whisper and I hear. “She’s in shock.” “Foreigners don’t cry.” “Immigrants lose their roots.”

Jan 3
Jan 3 Phantoms

We huddled together, silent, as we tiptoed past tombstones and stumbled over crumbling stone walls, the moon our lone guiding light.