Maya Tevet Dayan

Triger Warning

**Trigger Warning: Saturday

**Trigger Warning: Kibbutz

**Trigger Warning: Lawn

**Trigger Warning: Party

**Trigger Warning: Baby

**Trigger Warning: Door

**Trigger Warning: Doorknob

**Trigger Warning: Every bath time, every I'm cold, every I'm hungry, every what would you like to eat, every scrambled egg, every I don't want to wear socks, every Mommy [Trigger Warning: Mother] Every once-in-an-hour-that I wake up at night [Trigger Warning: Night, Night] Every time the blanket moves up and down, God make it move up and down Every time that I whisper to myself in the dark She's here, She's here Every time that I whisper to Her, Mommy is here Mommy is here.

Translated to English by Shachar Mor

About the Author

Maya Tevet Dayan is the author of a novel: One Thousand Years to Wait (2011) and three books of poetry: Let There Be Evening, Let There Be Chaos (2015), Wherever We Float, That’s Home (2018) and Coping Mechanisms (2021). Tevet Dayan is the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature for 2018 and an honorable mention from the Kugel Poetry Prize for 2016. English translations of her poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Rattle Magazine, World Literature Today, The New Quarterly and Literary Review of Canada. She holds a PhD in Indian Philosophy and Literature. Her latest book, Feminism, as I Told it to My Daughters (2023) is a memoir in essays based on her popular columns published in Haaretz magazine.  She recently translated into Hebrew a collection of the American poet Dorianne Laux.