dam sheli
By Rachael Sevitt
in hebrew we don’t just say my love we say my life we say my soul why stop there why not my breath my blood my veins my arteries why don’t we embrace after a long day my bowel exclaim in glee at a surprise gift my liver lay in bed late at night and whisper my spleen hands in her hair tugging my gallbladder and when we fall out of love there would be warnings first it would be my kidney when she comes home and pecks him on the cheek after a day of passionless silence yes my appendix he says when she asks him to pick up his socks the fourth time that day my tonsils she whines my little toe he grunts back
Rachael Sevitt is a Scottish-Israeli writer, poet, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2023 Andrea Moriah prize in Poetry, and an MA student in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University. Rachael lives near Tel Aviv, Israel. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Passengers Journal, Squawk Back, Write-Haus Magazine, and elsewhere. Find more of her work at rachaelsevitt.com and @rachael.sevitt on Instagram.
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