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Festive Earworm

Posted on April 21, 2025 by jillbpearlman

O holidays of promised liberation:One towards an earthly land,One to a place promised posthumously.In our hands, Questions: Which way now, How to mind the gap, Is home home? Exile exile?  Do the two meet as two seas thatclash and shamble towards each other?

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Never without a Fiddle

Posted on February 8, 2015 by jillbpearlman

My great-grandfather was a peddler in the old country of the Russia empire. His legacy was contained in one letter, written by an uncle, and that letter has been lost.   But the images of the letter inflamed my ten-year-old imagination: … Continue reading →

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