The Jewish Cemetary in Guanabacoa*
*Reprinted with permission from Marjorie Agosín, ed., Miriam’s Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets, Santa Fe: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001. Outside of Havanaare the Jewswho will never leave Cubauntil the comingof the Messiah. There is the graveof Sender Kaplan’s fathera rabbi’s graveencircled by an iron gateshaded by a royal palm. There is the gravein Hebrew lettersthat … Read more