Listing to G-d1 I do not know what I want when I want slumber I only know I need my eyes to cementthe nightdark burstsinto frissons of starlighthomage A workplace of sugary suggestion labours in breathwhen eyes do not need the need to seewhat becomes of becominga spoiled bodyshape I do not fail I merely fall— beingone —into the … Continue reading
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Oh sweet echo
BS”D Oh sweet echo (1) Oh sweet echo, alone to be we Brazen speck of energy Joy in a counting sunMan in a pluming whirl VigorousCautiousSoft How you own me Limitless scattering sky before usTenfold winters I won’t ignoreSunrising letters in a sudden Heaven As you become G-d-known (2) Echo eversweetening, love can adorn you … Continue reading
Sad Things (to the slave of us)
Sad Things(to the slave of us1) Lengthening these straitened bones We thirst withinthe desertsteppes Forty years the void adeptsfootfalls unvoiced in sand What privates our soul-sour sorrows when clouds condensely pall? What stalls in the white winds of pallor? (I find myself lost here2tinily unearthed) Stoppaging in open mistake our own still wilderness Revels a nation Granite grained ghostsin … Continue reading
Once We
B”H Once We According to the harvesterakin to a salientlove I am a messagea memory provider Recognizable from that hanker to the east This was not mein futuring dreamstare Virile inside your presencesecure with footfall Now I amtaciturnaroundandscreamscaredsacred Once we laughed sillilywith an ability to nevermindthe clatter of natureupin us Now I lessen1 to my underunsheathed unself … Continue reading
Shira chadasha
B”H 1) Rare to the world Fare-thee-well to the sprigs of last Spring Garments I’m wary ofblackening my darklight This lonely soulchoked white gold Give it a shuddershrug Give it comeuppance There is serious soil to contend with 2) Gan fishing Intimate me, darling, in your stylized womb Leave alone my worrisome busybody Herman guards his look bydin … Continue reading
Replenish the Quieted Body (revised with commentary)
this Heart dissolves Fire into Life 1) the First Cause Ripples, thins existence1 I be I Your black swan Surrenders its echofor the inner soundunderground Outcomes alive splattera life’s smattering2 If it does—or was—yetill recalls3 the story G-dsent Seconds ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1 The more expounding, the more undiscipline. It’s a self-sabotage not to know how to close … Continue reading
Replenish the Quieted Body
the Heart dissolves Fire into Life 1) the First Cause Ripples, thins existence Be it be Your black swan Surrenders its echofor the inner soundunderground Outcomes alive splattera life’s mattering If it does—or was—yetill recalls the story G-dsent Seconds (2) 86400 (Day On) Being a slow-soundingtroubadour United by silencea shorted deprivanceworth stirring alliance This quest of … Continue reading
My Mapless Manhunt
My Mapless Manhunt(a Guide’s Guile in four seasons) 1) On the Stripling’s cause: Keeningbetween my parents was a fulcrum, ballast,a voice in equipoise Distrust runawaycommences emerging loneliness Only beauty rescueswhich questions anchored me 2) On G-dly Karen: Of her powerenthralling amour I envelope my own standalonebeauty not to cleave to (not to marry myself)or borrow … Continue reading
Mangrows Aliving
Unbridled RachmanaBlindspotted métier after Traumlicht Strauss ++ Tonight you petition—call yourself home Cerebellum harpy andantebellum happy Number questions happenstance Slumber destinesanswerdance A peripatetic medicas your father works the phone We have a little sisteras green as driven riverin total — in the riverlapless and alone Shape her in mourning Paper her stormMantle her uppercrustbefore our earth … Continue reading
Chayei Sarah 5783
BS”D How confounding, the idea that G-d Created us in the Holy Image. It bamboozles any approach to grasping who we are. No shrink is going to give me an entryway … probably no rabbi either. What I can do is look for believers, observe righteous generosity in action, witness another’s tangible prayers open into … Continue reading
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