Spring News

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Hi Friends,

A couple small updates from my world:

  • I have a poem featured on Poetry Super Highway as part of the 27th Annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Issue. You can check it out here, and/or read the poem below.

  • I was very excited to read my 1st prize poem for the 35th Reuben Rose International competition, 2024. We did it on Sunday, April 27. I will share a video of it very soon. Stay tuned!

Until next time. Stay safe!
Judy

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Wildflowers Cover Everything

for father Patrick Desbois*

And the priest reports
A few villagers,
Aged but still living,
Remember

The festival days.
Mozart was played.
Streudel was served.
And beer.

There will be no towers
Of shoes or dentures,
No photo galleries,
No lampshades or gold teeth.

I write this poem
And Father Desbois does what he can
To survey, to count, to record,
But they were millions.


*Patrick Desbois (born 1955, in Chalon-sur-Saône) is a French Roman Catholic priest, former head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops’ Conference and consultant to the Vatican. He is the founder of the Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union.