Yael Statman is a developmental and education psychologist in Tel Aviv. Her debut collection, Concerning That Burning, was published in Hebrew in 2021 and received the Rabinovich Prize from the city of Tel Aviv. Her poems have appeared in major literary publications in Israel including Haaretz, Moznaim, Ho!, as well as in English translation in the Tel Aviv Review of Books.
“I Have Nothing but Exhaustion the Size of a Forest”
after Sirkka Turkka
I have nothing but exhaustion
the size of my daughter’s pupils,
when she brings her face close to my mouth,
ex…
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