my great-grand­ma delet­ed her face­book page 
so the cos­sacks wouldn’t find her 
the famous nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry paint­ing depicts the hang­ing of a 
Jew 
bub­bie pho­to­shopped the 
Jew 
out and replaced it with an 
apple 


only apples and oth­er fruits should hang from trees, no? 


bub­bie is back online and she sent me a DM 

for­get for a moment you have flat arch­es, plan­tar fasci­itis, and a bliz­zard in your  

heart you are a jaguar, a lion, a fierce sur­vivor 

you can run and still be brave 

take your fam­i­ly and go where you are want­ed  

be where you are safe 

stay where you are loved above all  

sur­vive! 

i was hap­py to learn that bubbie’s hora tik­tok went viral 
she deserves all the likes 

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 
 


This piece is a part of the Berru Poet­ry Series, which sup­ports Jew­ish poet­ry and poets on PB Dai­ly. JBC also awards the Berru Poet­ry Award in mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Wein­flash as a part of the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards. Click here to see the 2023 win­ner of the prize. If you’re inter­est­ed in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the series, please check out the guide­lines here.


Los Ange­les native Annie Wood is a neu­ro­di­verse writer, poet, TV/​Film/​VO actor, and inter­na­tion­al­ly exhib­it­ed artist. Her work has been pub­lished in sev­er­al pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The Huff­in­g­ton Post, Tiny Bud­dha, El Por­tal Lit­er­ary Jour­nal, Dig­ging Press Lit­er­ary Jour­nal, Orig­i­nal Works, Applause, Wit­craft and Smith & Kraus Pub­lish­ing. She has writ­ten three nov­els pub­lished in sev­er­al lan­guages: Dandy Day, A Quan­tum Love Adven­ture, and Just a Girl in the Whirl (Speak­ing Vol­umes Press). Her most recent debut is Bright­ness the Bird Girl, a children’s book that she wrote and illus­trat­ed about not fit­ting in and what to do about it. 

Annie Wood is a mem­ber of the Writ­ers Guild West, The Authors Guild, The Drama­tist Guild and the Los Ange­les Poets & Writ­ers Col­lec­tive. She has a blog called How to Love the World, where she posts week­ly poems, sto­ries and art. This is how Annie loves the world. https://​anniewood​.sub​stack​.com/​s​u​b​s​cribe