Visualize a silver light,
stroking your shoulders,
kissing your eyelids,
softly swirling
behind your neck
All around you
Shekhinah
Shimmering, pulsing,
beating like wings
Imagine angels
Four of them
Michael on your right side,
arm holding your waist
Gabriel on your left side
whispering, “You can.”
Uriel in front
finger pointing at the path
Raphael in back,
chanting the prayer of Moses
pleading for his sister Miriam,
“Please heal her. Heal her now.”
from Manna in the Morning (Kelsay Books, 2021)
