Stewart Florsheim's Writings
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Poem
May.28.2011
A Split Second of Light
The Boy Scout Handbook
Father makes a big loop
then pulls the end of the rope through.
It looks like a cursive O,
the first letter of a word
in a foreign language
we're trying to master
but neither of us has a clue:
bowline, clove hitch, sheet bend.
He looks at the book
then pulls the rope out,
sweating-his big hands
that would sooner carve sides...
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About Stewart
Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City, the son of refugees from Hitler’s Germany. He has received several awards for his poetry and has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of the Holocaust, an anthology of...
Causes Stewart Florsheim Supports
Compassion & Choices of Northern California
American Jewish World Service
Save Darfur
Doctors Without Borders
East Bay College...