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
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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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.substack.com/subscribe