Five Questions Asked at a Passover Seder
by Ariel Banayan
Does a body possess
A border—why do we cover
The mirror when reciting
A prayer—will this skin become
Our final or first barrier
Before death—does a new moon feel
Safe in its lacking like a face
Veiled in silk—will I ever
Trust you in the dark again
Listen to the poem here.
A border—why do we cover
The mirror when reciting
A prayer—will this skin become
Our final or first barrier
Before death—does a new moon feel
Safe in its lacking like a face
Veiled in silk—will I ever
Trust you in the dark again
Listen to the poem here.
 | Ariel N. Banayan is a writer born and raised in Los Angeles. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, the Foothill Journal, Guesthouse Lit, and elsewhere. He graduated from Chapman University's dual MA/MFA degree program, where he taught composition classes on the rhetoric of memory, prejudice, and the Holocaust. |