My Poison Tree

By Sharon Portnoff

Sharon Portnoff holds the Elie Wiesel Chair in Judaic Studies and is associate professor of religious studies at Connecticut College. Her poems have appeared in Midstream, the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Poetry Porch <http://​poetryporch.​com>, and in the collection Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu (Punctum, 2016). Poems are forthcoming in Free Inquiry and Moment.