We weren’t expecting it to rain, not when you can still see blue sky. It comes in one moment—an eye blink—a sip of coffee. Like war. It will be over in a minute, says the old, Moroccan man whose grandfather had once owned a pickle and cheese deli in this space. And I...
Sarah is a writer and poet of Iraqi-Jewish descent. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Lilith, The Ilanot Review, The Roadrunner Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Andrea Moriah Poetry prize, and a runner-up for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award. Her first children’s picture book, Shoham’s Bangle is forthcoming with Kar-Ben Publishing in 2022.