Poetry

Poetry

POEM: Emerging

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POEM: The Great Cry (Parashat Vayigash)

On that day, the earth shook with sorrow/ and the farmer who was seeding, paused mid-row (Click image to read more)

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POEM: Please Don’t Scoff at My Poetry

I am a toddler, my meter as awkward and unlearned as those jaunty steps of hers . . . (Click image to read full poem)

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POEM: The Baby Inside

. . . Like a wave, she rises up, ecstatic, full believing . . . (Click image to read full poem)

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POEM: Elekh: “I will Go” (Parashat Chayei Sarah)

Eliekh, she said. I will go. Without the fanfare of a burning furnace or an elaborate divine call. (Click image to read full poem)

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POEM: An Encounter

A neighbor calls to me as we meet at the corner of demolition and destruction. (Click image to read full poem)

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POEM: Else

When all else fails, nothing else matters.
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POEM: When I have No Words

And sometimes, if I wait and am very very Quiet, a door opens (Click image to read full poem)

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POEM: When Truth Comes

When truth comes, it wells up like a torrent inside (Click image to read more)

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POEM: Peaches and Avocado

I can’t say I arranged them that way.
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