Passing Through
by Sarah Stern
These old clothes take up room.
Corduroys, jumpers, shoes
the length of your palms
that once held your daughter’s feet
as she ran to you in the park in fall
when the leaves were particularly yellow.
The question remains, in that moment
when she was running toward you
and the light caught her, is it marked somewhere?
We have small shoes with worn heels.
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Sarah Stern won both the 2005 and 2002 Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Awards for Excellence in Poetry. She was also awarded an Honorable Mention from the 2006 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience, as well as a second Honorable Mention from Lilith Magazine’s 2004 Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Mid-America Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Amelia, Parting Gifts and Treasure House, among other publications. She is a writer/editor in the Communications Department of The Jewish Theological Seminary. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University ’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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