A Cleaner Slate
-Ken Seide
December 23, 2010
I saw my ex-wife on JDate
posing in front of her house
where we used to live,
the one I grew up in,
the one my father died in.
Gone is the slate-blue paint
the same color as my father’s eyes,
my mother’s favorite color,
which drew her to my father.
She said, My love for that color
led to your birth.
The house is white now, a cleaner slate.
Ken Seide (a pen name) lives in Newton, Mass. His poems and short stories have appeared in and on New Vilna Review, Midstream, Poetica, Scribblers on the Roof, and Ibbetson Street.
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Welcome to the New Vilna Review*A Note From the Publisher - February 8, 2012*
Dear readers and contributors, The New Vilna Review has been going through some changes the past few months, and our focus has shifted to offering an expanded selection of poetry, fiction and arts writing. We are once again accepting submissions, and look forward to continuing to publish some of the most interesting and thought provoking work in the world of Jewish arts and letters. -Daniel E. Levenson Publisher and Editor-in-Chief The New Vilna Review |
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