Take These Broken Wings
“Still, somewhere beneath the sorrow / that has settled on me,
something fragile / dreams of flight.”
Elul
“Elul is a bridge crossed in the fullness of summer, a path we begin to clear toward our imagined future.”
Tisha B’Av at Delaney Hall
“We take a breath / in silence and then / a shofar blower / pierces the summer night / with a wailing cry
for justice, for wholeness, for redemption / and release.”
A Mikvah Ritual to Mourn the Loss of Potential Life
A complete mikvah ritual designed with great sensitivity
Modah Ani
“The day we create / The soul in mercy returned / The heart, even so, / forgiving and forgiven”
Enflamed
“My viscera / cannot distinguish / between the extinguishing / of one life in particular…”
Legacy Museum
“I am offered no mask, no armor,
only a ticket and the instruction
to keep walking…”
Hineni – Here I am…
“Hineni – struggling to envision even a “fragile peace” with true justice for all peoples…”
One Twentieth Century Jewish American Legacy
“a gift from ancestors who belonged from the outside / who left destroyed shtetls in Russia, in Poland…”
Yom Kippur Offering
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“Words. Waiting / for souls to emerge / chiseled and clean.”
