Archive - Letters on Being

Unexpected Color

A summer haibun for a surprise grasshopper

Jul 7 •

Yardena Schwersky

June Considerations

Musings on the sixth month of 2025

Jul 1 •

Yardena Schwersky

June 2025

May 2025

May Considerations

Musings on the fifth month of 2025

May 31 •

Yardena Schwersky

A Life Derailed

When fatigue, vertigo, and a numb tongue become a lifelong battle with MS

May 25 •

Yardena Schwersky

Tea Palpitations

Lessons from overstimulated heartbeats

May 18 •

Yardena Schwersky

Sad Poets Society № 20

Calling for help with Stevie Smith

May 15 •

Yardena Schwersky

Haiku for the Start of Summer

The heat comes early to Florida

May 11 •

Yardena Schwersky

If We Meet in the Cemetery

A poem about grief and the ways we carry on

May 5 •

Yardena Schwersky

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