Shelley Saposnik
Shelley Saposnik

Shelley Saposnik acquired her B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches Modern European and Renaissance Literature at Touro College and her most recent publication can be found in The Jewish Literary Journal.

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Remembering the Unicorn

(On Studying the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters, New York City)

She moves through bare hallowed halls, hands hidden within pockets of wool, a rosary swinging from her waist; her heels click stone floors, quick as the crack of a whip. A white stallion woven in silken threads Nostrils flaring, tongue raging Plunges, unable to wrest himself From a fence sequestering his freedom. “Christ claims silence […]

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