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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Elliot O. Lipchik Elliot O. Lipchik: "You can take the man out of Brooklyn, but cannot take Brooklyn out of the man. Thus, my first chapbook of poetry, Tethered To These Stones, reflects those seminal years. Raised by immigrant parents and schooled through college in New York provided indelible "melting pot" experiences. After college I lived and studied Medicine in Europe, returning to Rochester, New York and then to Milwaukee. Since early retirement from medicine and a professorship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, I have been studying (primarily at UWM) and writing poetry. My poetry has been published in: Porcupine, Borderlands-Texas Poetry Review, Cicada, Chiron Review (prize winner), Religious Consultation Report I, et al."

At the Jewish Cemetery, Prague Elliot O. Lipchik

A forest of stone tablets like tilted dominoes that lean on one another rooted, not 6 degrees but 12, to the beginning of time. I am tethered to these stones whose carved inscriptions have faded If one toppled, I would be pulled feet first under the holy ground. There could be no resistance to these chains of the past My skull cap to mark the spot of disappearance.

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