THIS IS FOR LOE-ANN

Published by Reuven Goldfarb on

In my barrenness

no sound

can be heard

unfound

girl obscured

in the heaviness

of no word

 

Background:

 

Loe-Ann (not sure of the spelling) was a hitchhiker to whom I gave a ride on my way back to New York in August of 1968.  I saw her at Monday Night Class in San Francisco a little over a year later.   This is one of three poems of mine that editor Shawn Edrei chose to appear in arc-26 (2019), the theme of which was “Love in a Time of Conflict.”  This annual journal is published by the Israel Association of Writers in English (IAWE).

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Reuven Goldfarb

Writer, editor, and teacher, Reuven Goldfarb has published poetry, stories, essays, articles, and Divrei Torah in scores of periodicals and anthologies and won several awards. Reuven published and edited AGADA, the illustrated Jewish literary magazine (1981-88), taught Freshman English at Oakland’s Merritt College (1988-97) and courses in Poetry Immersion and Short Story Intensive as a freelancer in Tzfat (2009-12). Goldfarb served the Aquarian Minyan as officer and service leader for 25 years and received s’micha from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as Morenu, Maggid, and Rabbinic Deputy in 1993. He now works as a copy editor for books and manuscripts and coordinates monthly meetings for the Upper Galilee branch of Voices Israel. He and his wife Yehudit host classes, workshops, and a weekly Talmud shiur in their Galilee home.

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