the walls and floors of my Brooklyn
synagogue are made of the whitest
Jerusalem limestone they glow in skylit
Sun overexposed made pale the Cantor
always told me that limestone was
special the same material the Wailing
Wall is made of a white so sacred it can
connect you straight to God and in this
holiest of spaces my skin is the darkest
thing in the room to be half Korean and
Jewish is to be a joke the one that goes
Jewish men just love Asian women my
birth the punchline in synagogue I still
know all of the prayers by heart and I
speak them just a little bit louder than
the rest of the crowd not because my
faith is stronger but because from the
Bema I look like a moth attracted to the
white sky light a speck against the
limestone white hands reach up and try
to crush me…
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