A Wall is Built as a Wall Falls – In Parts
And on the first day there was a groan as if the earth herself contracted sweat beading down her brow and the stuck sob…
Process / אטרף
How they fall, how they fall jeweled flowers from the heavens adorning the breeze tessellation of tessellations reflections of reflections nestling gently in the…
When the Market Stood Still
Hands at the side, raised to the forehead clenched in a fist gripping oneself and another after a minute, after the howl a murmur…
Between the Suns
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…
Words to My Loved Ones in the Nuclear Fallout
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…
Arugot
But what did you see; a life, mother sweet smoke rising and the beating of hands on legs voices cast to heaven a moment…
Asphodel
A land of platforms built on stilts above a stirring giant fins slowly churning the surf breaking as the hooves of horses and their…
Schism
And ask what am I, staring at these baskets set on the moss and hanging from the vines this mess of limbs padded with…
Seagull
Turn to me seagull crane your neck so I make you not a picture A few lines scratched against the sea, itself already faded…
The Will of a Flower
A flower does not bloom by your will It does not open to your voice, your hand your brute imposition of untimely request and…
Noon, the Sixth Day
You ask me to paint the future How? The canvas isn’t cut The sun is yet to set And I’m still mixing colors
Night Journey
One night I walked twelve miles the sergeant told us ‘take this time to think about important things’ I can’t remember what I thought…