The Voice of the Rainbow

A double rainbow arches across the sky above green trees.

“Everyone came on deck to look and wonder and exclaim how beautiful, and I was quite satisfied with the result…”

Invoking Shekhinah

A hanging kinetic mobile featuring thin wire branches and abstract metal shapes suspended from the ceiling.

“Visualize a silver light, /stroking your shoulders, /kissing your eyelids, / softly swirling /behind your neck…”

Lekh Lekha

A tree with vibrant red and yellow autumn leaves stands next to a stone wall lining a street with parked cars.

“I walk mapless
from ignorance to truth,
from going to knowing.”

Bereishit

Shallow water with rocks and tall grass at the edge of a pond under bright sunlight.

“We rested and we continued to change. / We were Creation.
We still are.”

It’s not Mar Heshvan

Two stained-glass Star of David ornaments hanging in a window.

“When they arrived in Eretz Yisrael
they learned the Temple had been destroyed. / Some broke into deep tears / feeling this fresh loss.”

We Are Jane Doe

Yellow and brown autumn leaves scattered on wet asphalt.

In support of victims of sexual assault, this new poem is inspired by the Yom Kippur Ashamnu Prayer

After The Harvest

A grassy path leading through an autumn field toward a distant mountain under a clear blue sky.

“We forage for the last of the green, / Knowing that soon we will be living / on only what we’ve saved.”

Simkhat Torah War

Green meadow with scattered rocks, two trees, ruins of a structure, and a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky.

“Air raid sirens the only psalms now sung / in this land of too many Gods.”

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