Anne Whitehouse

Tipton Poetry Journal – Summer 2021

Yahrzeit

Anne Whitehouse

My parents were rarely on the same wavelength. Most of the time they talked at each other, not to each other. But here they are, by a quirk of the Hebrew calendar, yoked forever and forever, until the end of time, sharing the same Yahrzeit, although one died in February and the other in March, two years apart.

Every year I pray for them together and speak their names together, before my congregation.

Anne Whitehouse’s recent poetry collection is Outside from the Inside (Dos Madres Press, 2020), and her recent chapbook is Surrealist Muse, about Leonora Carrington (Ethelzine, 2020). A new chapbook, Escaping Lee Miller, is forthcoming from Ethelzine. Anne is also the author of a novel, Fall Love. She lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. www.annewhitehouse.com