Autumn. Leaves are whirling from poplar borders and my grandfather has shot a rabbit for dinner. “Poor rabbit.” Nurse-like, my sister blushes over the shoebox where the furry wretch sucks shot from its paw. This one, soon to be pulled, cannot be saved in her private clinic—will she keep pulling its leg or its spirit, […]
Jacqueline Schaalje
Jacqueline Schaalje, MA, has published short fiction and poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Talking Writing, and Frontier Poetry, among others. She is a member of the Israel Association for Writers in English.