Rachel Mennies is the review editor at AGNI. Her poetry has won an Academy of American Poets prize and has appeared recently in Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Hayden's Fairy Review, and Linebreak.
Amidah for Teenage Girls
We said it Friday nights in unison: blessed is Abraham, Isaac, patriarchs whose weight we felt against our chests, Jacob, whose brother filled his mouth with the sand of hate, who split sisters with his body of patience. The God of History, reads the Siddur, nothing more dangerous than this sort of...
