What Was The Sensible Decision?
By Maya Bernstein
Maya Bernstein’s writing has appeared in Allium, The Amethyst Review, By the Seawall, The Ekphrastic Review, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Tablet Magazine, Vita Poetica, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first collection is There Is No Place Without You (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022). Maya serves on the board of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. See mayabernstein.com.
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