The cries that carry
from one end
of the earth
to the other.
The cries
passed between,
one mother
to another.
The cries
so loud
that they cannot
be heard.
Lips, mute,
as a multitude of
shofars blow,
fully open
the arteries
of their hearts:
Sara’s drowning Teruah
in the wake
of her son.
Sisera’s mother’s
Shevarim breaking through
the lattice
returning without carrying
any answer.
Heart-searing
Tekiah gedolah
in surrogate YaelA female character in the Book of Judges who is instrumental in the Israelites' obtaining the victory that Deborah had prophesied. When she encountered the enemy king Sisera, Yael invites him into her tent. She feeds him milk to make him drowsy and, when he fell asleep, she murders him by driving a tent peg through his temple.
as she plunges toward
her irreversible decision.
