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Jacqueline Schaalje

JACQUELINE SCHAALJE has published short fiction and poetry in the Massachusetts Review, Talking Writing, Frontier Poetry, Grist, among others. Her stories and poems were finalists for the Epiphany Prize, in the Live Canon and New Guard Competitions. She has received scholarships at the Southampton Writers Conference and International Women's Writing Guild. She is a member of the Israel Association for Writers in English, and is the current co-editor of their literary magazine arc. She earned her MA in English from the University of Amsterdam.

Mother and the Flowers
By Jacqueline Schaalje

December 13, 2021 Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje

Flowers in a Vase

Nine out of ten times, Mother hypnotized flowers not to sneeze. She taught other housewives to branch their spitzes, stick them out so they would all be prim donnas. Irksome they sprinkled pollen. Behind her elbow, they called her shrew and harridan. Minimalized in ro- tation, she peppered her devotees. Their landslip murk swelled with […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: December 13, 2021

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