L'Chaim
In Hebrew, the word for life is chai…root word of a common
Jewish toast, L'Chaim, which means “To life!”--the Lerner School
Sourdough bread on the tongue
(awaiting its fennel and dandelion tea),
the room settles, toasty warm, heater humm.
‘Course the candlelight helps (why, the gold
flecked Icons they glow!). Scent of frost still
on this nightgown, dried outdoors. As Joseph
rolls in, fresh from a sighting–-sparrow hawk on
the porch. Him still as tree not to startle
her. “Could've cupped her in my hand”, he
says, cradling steep nettle tea now,
raised in toast--
*From a letter composed through Daisy Barrett Nash's Writers At Play, letter writing series, 2022.
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