Eva Eliav
Author | Poet | Artist
Welcome to my website. Hope you enjoy these samples of my poetry, fiction, and art.
BIO
Eva Eliav received her BA in English Language and Literature from The University of Toronto. She now makes her home in Israel. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Eve (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2019), One Summer Day (Kelsay Books, 2021), and October (Kelsay Books, 2026). A new chapbook, Gulf War Diaries, is forthcoming. Her poetry and flash fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Room, Emrys Journal, JewishFiction.net, Ilanot Review, Flashquake, The Apple Valley Review, Horizon Review, Variant Lit, Luna Station Quarterly, Fairy Tale Magazine, Stand, Constellations, Minyan, Fictive Dream, Gyroscope Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Rogue Agent, Dust, Thimble, The Lake Magazine, One Art, Panoplyzine, and The Ginosko Review.
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
From "October"
our children danced
our children danced
and bled
the vessels of their bodies
broke and spilled
the night-warm earth
grew salty
with their blood
perhaps in the larger scheme
all works for good
here chaos rules