Eva Eliav
Author | Poet | Artist
Welcome to my website. Hope you enjoy these samples of my poetry, fiction, and art.
BIO
Eva Eliav studied English Literature at The University of Toronto and The University of Tel Aviv. Her poetry and flash fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Room, Emrys Journal, Ilanot Review, Flashquake, The Apple Valley Review, Horizon Review, Luna Station Quarterly, Fairy Tale Magazine, Stand, Constellations, Minyan, One Art, Gyroscope Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and Fictive Dream.
She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Eve (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2019) and One Summer Day (Kelsay Books, 2021).
From "One Summer Day"
strangers share my web
of rituals
we speak in covert glances
understandings
the same ants sting our feet
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we bathe together
in the same hot wind
traffic rumbles by
the radio squawks
two boys are arguing
in Italian
a man and woman
fiddle with their phones
within this snarl
of languages and silence
we pulsing knots
of life
From "Eve"
perhaps what we needed in eden
was a mother
the old man’s love
was so conditional
and the garden
smugly stocked with delicacies
painfully perfect
had little to do really
with what we are
fistful of grasses
in a jar of bone
clumsy kisses
tasting of flesh and blood