Prayer on the Commencement of a Pilgrimage
“May every footstep and contemplation reveal the divine within, in whose image we are made”.
Appointment with a Nurse Practitioner
“For the length of a medical visit
my imagination roamed the wreckage of another’s mind
and hers, mine…”
Pomegranate Seed
“We are kernels of possibility Vessels of tart-sweet juice…”
Say Their Names
“they are far / unreachable / underground…”
My Mikveh is Gone
“My mikvehThe ritual bath. The waters of the mikveh symbolically purify – they are seen as waters of rebirth. A convert immerses in the mikveh as part of conversion. Many Orthodox married women go to the mikveh following their period and before resuming sexual relations. Couples go to the mikveh before being married. Many, including some men, immerse before Yom Kippur; some go every Friday before Shabbat. is gone and swallowed up in this dark place. Where can I find peace?”
Threefold Benediction on the Occasion of a Bar/Bat/B*Mitzvah
An interpretive version of the Threefold Benediction.
Prayer for a BIPOC Festival
We, human beings, share in the diversity of this garden we call home. And we are all blessed and strengthened by it.
Zikhron T’ruah: A Ritual for Reaching or Passing the Age of Someone Who Died
This ritual is an opportunity for someone to meaningfully mark a threshold when they reach or pass the age at which someone who was important in their life died.
Strange Fire
“When my cold dead hand brushed against Aaron’s collar,/his soul purred with a satisfied hymn of approval…”
Salvage
What was the artist’s aim? /
To say … Here I am
