Two Minds History of Judaism —Thomas Smith

—Thomas Smith

Snowy Mountains Mistletoe by Alissa Callen: After losing his fiancee

one step ahead of trouble

Raise your hand if you feel like there's far too much sh*t you wanna get done and just not enough time to do it

Except she never shows up

Two Minds History of Judaism —Thomas SmithDoes loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry. Two Minds indulges and therefore exposes the vanity of turning private pain into art and the pursuit of self revelation. Drawing on ekphrasis, ars poetica, and the prose poem, Siskel expands the elegiac genre as she oscillates between childhood and