Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes
Night comes by dark and by habit, the earth rolling over, the sun turning away, one backward glance gilding the horizon. The dead swallow their lives whole, in a gulp, like the raw egg of a hangover remedy. But that’s no reason to ignore them or the returning brilliance of day. [End Page 46]
Teya Schaffer
Teya Schaffer, a Jewish feminist of the secular persuasion, frequently finds biblical references and Yiddish inflections surfacing in her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals for over twenty years, most recently in The Comstock Review, Sinister Wisdom and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry. Her book A Ritual of Drowning: Poems of Love and Mourning won the Pippestrelle Best of the Small Press award in 1999.
