Reid@YWP

As I sometimes say, I’m Jewish, emphasis on the ish. That is to say that my family and I casually follow some Jewish traditions but are far from very religious.

It's a thin, fragile book

you would keep in a desk

the cover is elegant

and the pages, a mess

In black and red ink

     With the final touch of trimming their Christmas tree, my parents had finished setting up and decorating for Christmas at last.

I do not remember when we were young 
or how large the world once seemed, 
this is one of the things only she knew.