NVN Tuesday: WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
by Pamela Wax
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The ants are marching single file, their annual exodus across faux-granite counters, up and down door jambs, through the sea of scraps in my stainless steel sink. I’ve been told to kill them, a stew of sugar and boric acid. A sweet, merciful death. But I can’t. Not this year. Especially not this year. May all who are hungry come. Eat.
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Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth(Main Street Rag, 2022) and Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Her poems have received a Best of the Net nomination and awards from Crosswinds, Paterson Literary Review, Poets’ Billow, Oberon, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Other publications include Barrow Street, Tupelo Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Chautauqua, The MacGuffin, Nimrod, Solstice, Mudfish, Connecticut River Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Slippery Elm. An ordained rabbi, Pam offers spirituality and poetry workshops online and around the country. She lives in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts.