Ketubah

By | 1 February 2015
The scrapbook is bound

in sky blue leather, worn

thin at the spine, filled

with cracked black pages.

Inside are marriage certificates

that float like gold leaf

in my hands. Old postcards

and photographs lift free.

I turn the pages; discover

what look like a stack

of ancient treasure maps-

Polish telegrams dated 1924,

the year of my great grandparent’s

wedding. I document the artefacts

and scan the front and back, just in case

I miss a clue.
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Anna Jacobson is a writer and artist from Brisbane. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) is her first full-length poetry collection, which won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (Open Creative Nonfiction), was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship, and was shortlisted in the Spark Prize. In 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her poetry chapbook The Last Postman was published with Vagabond Press (2018) as part of the decibel 3 series.

http://www.annajacobson.com.au/

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