NVN Tuesday: I LEFT BEHIND THE NAMELESS AUTHORS’ BODIES
by Michal Rubin
Israeli demonstrators hold an anti-war protest on Feb. 27 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with signs that say 30,000 to signify the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since Oct. 7. Maya Levin for NPR
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Seeking refuge from earth where the tree of knowledge died I walked into the moon stripped [off] the uniform words that lied oozing blisters rubbing against the craters filled with 23,968 stories 27,733 stories 30,035 stories
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Michal Rubin is an Israeli, living in Columbia, SC. The impetus for her writing came from the years-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a psychotherapist, a Cantor and a poet, she brings forth the challenge of distinguishing truths from myths, awareness vs. denial, conformity vs. individuation. Her work was published in Psychotic Education, The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, Wrath Bearing Tree journal, Rise Up Journal, Topical Poetry, Fall-Lines, The Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Waxing & Waning: A Literary Journal, South Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2023, Palestine-Israel Journal, and a chapbook published by Cathexis Northwest Press.