Erika Dreifus

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

All vows are cancelled now,
all words undone like chains
that snap, their lockets smashed.

Source: Grace Schulman, “Kol Nidrei: September 2001” (Michigan Quarterly Review)

(With thanks to Elizabeth Edelglass for the reminder.)