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Breindy Klawansky

Nov 9, 2020, 6:21 PM

Jerusalem — where the street’s name is my sister’s

Morning light is facing me light that magnifies faraway things into the steps right there. I walk down watchfully my suitcase wheels are jumping. That does not matter. I am here. I don’t wish to wait but the wait deepens my wishes of getting to the other side. Things take...

Oct 12, 2020, 11:49 PM

8 Julia Street East

I'm mourning for the walls. The walls that watched 8 Julia Street East, watched my mother daven for her children, every Friday night. (My mother knows how to daven for her children). I'm mourning for the walls of 8 Julia street that soaked...

Oct 6, 2020, 12:13 PM

Before the sun goes down, on Erev Yom Kippur

We stayed home this yom Kippur. There was no Shofar at the end of Ne'ila. So we pretended to blow it, created the sounds with our mouths and hands. And then after, we danced. Me and my three children. My boy and girl and...

About Me

Breindy Klawansky is a musician and poet living in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. She has an honours in visual and performing arts from Wits university and her 2nd album Ruth Ave was nominated for best alternative album at the Sama's. She is married to producer, Matthew Klawansky and has three children.

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