Unpinned
Bowing, treetops meet curlicues of smoke.
Relief is bread and stew, another icy night dispelled.
Massive, that grey sky shot with blood, passing
by, where a man hears “go,
seek yourself”. And they that stay
behind, estranged in their land,
what sacred cow
must they sacrifice to batten down
the bluffed and buffered
tent flap they have become.
Seree Cohen Zohar, Australian-born, emigrated at 20 to Israel where
her life included some two decades of farming, echoed in her art,
poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in publications such
as Routledge’s International Feminist Journal of Politics, Voices
Israel, Arc, Skive, Jerusalem Post, Horizons, The Flea and Soundzine.
Seree is a professional translator who lectures on the metaphysical
within the Genesis texts. Most recently she collaborated (with Alan
Sullivan) as the Bible language consultant on a contemporary English
versification of Psalms, soon to be published. In her free time, Seree
might be found trying out new flash-recipes on her unsuspecting
family.
