Pitzootz Means Explosion in Hebrew

free verse poem

her blond hair grew red roots
she asked if we were still in Jerusalem
i said yes

she asked why she was so cold
i lied and said it was snowing
she asked me to keep her warm

she said it was the third time
she’d seen it snow there,
it happened every twenty years

i curled around her, close
her blood swallowed my tears and sank
into the cracks between the stones