Milk Fed

Worse yet, his wife had just given birth to twin daughters and he now identified as a “feminist.” Ofer was acquiring a perfunctory knowledge of social justice, as dictated by thinkpieces on diversity, inclusion, and equal pay in the Hollywood Reporter.

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.
—Thomas Hobbes

Subway was flanked by two frozen yogurt shops

alleviate the suffering

coarse, wavy brown hair

chafed against the bed

cheese blintzes, knishes,

schnecken, replaced cherry hamantaschen

traipsing through it together

you found your way back to me once and so can find your way back again, because I am always here. The world will hurt you again and again. You will hurt yourself again and again. And when it does, and when you do, you will remember me again and again. You will drop to your knees. You will hold yourself. You will be your own daughter again.