Two Poems, by Alicia Hoffman

In the psychological journal, the secrets we carry from lifetime to lifetime are coined traumatic transmissions. How generations later, holocaust survivors’ children nightmare starving, still, how our dreams discover the larger narrative, turmoil in our genomes overwhelming, unnamable, all that liminal space the poets are so fond of uncovering, how my father’s father hoarded...

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