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    Against the Grain
    Against the Grain
    Against the Grain
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    Against the Grain

    By Dana Shahar

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    This poetry compilation, the second version of Against the Grain, delves into the exceptional experience of being human, which manifests itself in interaction, connection, and loss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 7, 2014
    ISBN9781312304420
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      Against the Grain - Dana Shahar

      Against the Grain

      Against the Grain

      Dana Shahar

      © 2014 Dana Shahar. All rights reserved.

      ISBN 978-1-312-30442-0

      Dedicated to all those who took a moment to care for someone else—

      All those who gave a moment to me.

      Nelson Mandela is quoted saying to those who fought for his freedom—

      "Thank you for making the choice to care."

      Table of Contents

      Crafting Moonlight

      Broken Glass

      mahogany wood-stripes

      Kindness

      Human

      Nostalgia

      Electric Storm

      Windows

      Pathfinder

      Scorekeeper

      Father

      Lost

      The Girl With the Band-Aid on Her Knee

      Unreal Things

      conversation

      In This House

      Hospital Bed

      Lonely

      Stained

      kristallnacht

      Heart Attack

      Close

      magnolias

      A Winter Morning

      Autumnal Mornings

      Gramophone

      Our Silk Stories

      Brain-dead

      God’s Will

      Mother to Daughter

      Evening

      I Have Cracked a Nut of Bitter Nectar

      Upturned Nose of a Dawn

      The Painting of a Body of Persons Indefinitely Collective

      floating

      Quiet Preservation

      Let’s Go Gatsby

      My Lovely Leon

      Crafting Moonlight

      As we talked the night held my hand tightly

      so that the stars shook in my palm

      and shone through the holes between my fingers.

      And the revelation of the conversation arose

      when the stars in my hand

      shook in time with hers.

      And me and the night, we were one with the stars,

      her like velvet, and me like

      glass.

      Broken Glass

      Walking blind with my heart on my sleeve,

      I am broken glass:

      Broken inside and I feel like my

      heart doesn’t fit with my

      head anymore because the glass that connected them

      Chipped,

      and the smooth glass faces that once

      slid to fit

      No longer fit.

      My head fights my heart

      and I’m

      Broken glass,

      Broken on the inside, but also

      Sparkling, Radiant,

      bright like a thousand stars

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