Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing Journal

Perhaps a bird ate the breadcrumbs laid by the side of the road  by the woodcutter’schildren. It isn’t bad, being lost in a forest where its...

  The Tears Run Together I am weary and cannot bear to stay awake But the Shekinah Pries my eyes open. She tells me to look And I see a woma...

Indivisible Separating myself from my parents is an impossibility. The imprint of my mother’s hands will always be on my skin. Her voice alw...

  “I want you to stay.” It was the simplest little sentence, just five words. She said them to him every night, in her head but this time ...

    This year’s Pushcart Prize nominees are: Lynne Bronstein “Tirzah” (poem) Beverly Collins “Effects on Nature” (poem) Elizabeth Jaeger “...