Jonathan Dubow

Bracha

You, my
you, the
way your
name
doesn't fit

you, the way
you be
come what
ever I call
you, the way

I hold you,
like some
body in a grave
yard holds
their breath.

Jonathan Dubow has recent work in the Crab Creek Review, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Heavy Feather Review, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere. He lives in Schenectady, NY and teaches in the department of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany-SUNY.