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Edward Nudelman

Edward Nudelman is a cancer research scientist with over 65 papers published in peer-reviewed science journals. His poems have been published in Ampersand, The Atlanta Review, Mipoesias, Plainsongs, New Writing, and elsewhere. His poetry book Night Fires was recently published by Pudding House Press and he has a widely read poetry blog, Thirteen Blackbirds, at www.edwardnudelman.blogspot.com.



Breakfast Chat

She spoke of the holocaust
in the same way she spoke of making eggs.
Pulling back the veil only once for me
as I waited on a wooden chair in the corner
of her kitchen, the smell of rich butter
wafting my way, thickly intoxicating.
The eggs were moist and barely cooked.
Henry mumbled Hebrew idioms
intermittently as she explained it to me.
When she finally sat down, I learned how many had died.
And how they died.

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