Baking bread with Sarah

Welcome back to 'The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined,' where I explore the story of the biblical matriarch through poetry and a poet’s prose.

This week’s Poem

This week’s poem, prompted by my experience of learning to bake challah for the first time in the days immediately following the October 7th attack, was originally published online at the Jewish Writing project here, and in my other online newsletter here.

At first, I didn’t think of it as one of my “Sarah” poems, even though Sarah is me…