Portrait of Timothée Chalamet’s Silver Suit as Andrea Zambelli’s L’Honnesta Keter on Display at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 551

pewter cummerbund ; unbridled holy water 
remind me to stop wearing
jewelry in the shower 
the stripping of varnish & oil
how can you call yourself Jewish 
if you know nothing about the rituals? 
i was today years old 
when i learned about torah crowns 
my parents had a summer wedding 
& moved far away from the city
all the love in the world is 
carried by a boy of tiny bells
he bubbles with laughter 
a strand of thirty pearls fountains 
from behind the fold of his ear

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Adrienne Novy (@artsy_addy) is an artist with Cat Eye Syndrome who grew up in the Chicago west suburbs. She is a nominee for Bettering American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and is a 2020 graduate from Hamline University’s Creative Writing program. She is the author of Crowd Surfing With God (Half Mystic Press, 2018) and the mini-chapbooks, We Have Each Other’s Flowers (Zines + Things, 2020) and Pull (Ginger Bug Press, 2020). Adrienne’s most recent work can be found in Passages North and “You Flower / You Feast: An Anthology of Prose, Poems, & Plays inspired by Harry Styles.” She is a poetry editor for FreezeRay Poetry and has a cat named Laurie.