B’H You lean into me In aweighted concerto Two souls or more interlining KaleidedCenturies, voiding Proust in the backlanes Supercilious I touch you. I Much touch touch touch much touch Must touch touch touch Such is I&you Am you. … Continue reading
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Parshat Korach 5778
B”H The first Jewish anti-Semite was Korach. He questions Moses obsessively: “Why do you put yourself above us? We’re all holy. I’m as smart as anyone. I’m more gifted than you. I have true followers. Why do you arrogate leadership?” Moses answers as we all naturally would to such preposterousness: “Why are you telling me … Continue reading
Psalm 39
B”H Lest We Lose Our Lustre Tonight Swoon. I’ll dream you in the bend of the night. Swoon; We might die too soon, in mid- flight. my Babycakes, besides the moon is His, you, nigh cosiner, Lie to me, the love we re-own, ; is this? miss? is done is his grist, my only one, … Continue reading
Psalm 38: Ode to this Listlessנס
B”H Alas, You Love Everyman. Accept Me. Continue reading
Yom HaShoah 5778
B”H Three outdoor monuments bespeak the regressive brutality of the Shoah. First, by a cobblestone road in Vienna, a statue of an elderly Jew in payos and tzitzit gleams as two Nazi policemen taunt him and jeer. Such scenes replayed in open display in the days after Kristallnacht, while the whole city witnessed the humiliation. … Continue reading
Alwaysing
B”H Nope, I don’t I won’t I can’t Know how to love Anyone Without you You poured your motherlove Into my pores Imported me Importantly Into your whirled And I can’t I won’t Don’t want to love Without you Sometimes The liminal cries In the summertime day But I am dazed Away From your cants … Continue reading
Purim and Pesach, 5778
B”H A strong and urgent emphasis in our calendar is to have Purim land precisely one month before Pesach. In leap years with two Adars, we celebrate Purim in the second Adar—counterintuitive to the principle to fulfil any mitzvah at its first opportunity. Why? The rabbis insist on preserving a vital link between these two … Continue reading
