Quiet on the Mountain
Listen to Her, for She is always speaking Straining against these lines drawn and quartered tattooed on aging maps Her’s is not the type…
דומה
Everything feels quiet now The air hugs my skin hair not quite raised, but not quite static seaweed drifts in the current catching sunbeams…
Eliyahu
I sat across from a carved wooden chair Blanketed with rich fuchsia and ornate golden leaves woven with grandeur and royalty I blinked and…
On Freedom II
Freedom is beyond and before a state, itself before choice and deed. Freedom is an inherent quality, not attained, but expressed. It is the…
On Freedom
“The benevolent G-d who, on our behalf, brought retribution upon Pharaoh… who, in his wrath, struck all the first-born of Egypt, and brought out…
East by Eden
I looked into my mirror last night and saw a snake. Its head was shaped like an arrow, with gleaming eyes set like polished…
Asherah
A tree was planted across the park From my balcony I glimpse its branches and the old men sitting in the shade They brought…
She Calls to Me by Name
I found her in a shepherd’s vale With lilies twined up in her hair I asked her what had brought her there and she…
Twisted Metal
I wonder what those future archaeologists will think of these derelict towers and rusted iron smokestacks jutting from the ancient earth and what stories…
Sound and Fury
I am haunted by those old gods Odin, Zeus, Osiris as shadow and blood rippling through my genes ephemeral rifts in my body’s memory…
Son of the Rising Star
Handcuffs, battered face blooded nose and blazing eyes a proud brow, the snarling head of lions, ripping havoc into the tails of foxes to…
Guard Duty, 3:55pm
Sparrows clipped like clothespins to the hoary bramble sprawling between the bars of sun-bleached iron industrial grey and gentle slate to them the melding…