There Is
There is There is tension in the chest There is worry in the throat There is poison on the tongue, at the back, where…
Yonah ben-Avraham has been active with the Vision movement for over a decade, and currently calls Jerusalem home. Trained in the anthropology & history of religions at Harvard University, he is currently researching emerging spiritual movements at the University of Edinburgh. He also writes a fair bit of poetry, a good deal of which can be found here at Vision Magazine. His first published collection, Ohelibah, can be purchased through Izzun Books.
And on the first day there was a groan as if the earth herself contracted sweat beading down her brow and the stuck sob…
How they fall, how they fall jeweled flowers from the heavens adorning the breeze tessellation of tessellations reflections of reflections nestling gently in the…
Hands at the side, raised to the forehead clenched in a fist gripping oneself and another after a minute, after the howl a murmur…
Takbir! Takbir! Glory, glory to G-D! If dog you call me Then wolf I will remain Slavering, slavering drunk as the Moon Howling, howling…
I’ll see you next time, beloved and if I don’t, know I’m always there listening waiting for you I am in the blood you…
A flower does not bloom by your will It does not open to your voice, your hand your brute imposition of untimely request and…