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

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…

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, 3:55 pm - view from a guard post

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…

Blood Moon by Yonah ben-Avraham

Blood Moon

There was in its eyes a glow the pale shimmer of curling mist at the edges of the sea an irradiated grimace not quite…

Ayekah by Yonah ben-Avraham - grassy hillside with a tree

Ayekah

I keep asking myself a question or something like myself a question the being that exists in the tension between what I feel should…