Poem Without a Title

“What I need, right now, / is to not feel…”
Tipat Torah: From Wilderness to Bitterness to Light
How do we make it through the bitterness, the darkness, the uncertainty of this time? We call on what we know from that wild, rudderless, nomadic experience of being both lost and guided bamidbar.
Calculating and Recalculating

“May I find peace, / safety, / love.”
The Unanswered Questions

“I cannot be soothed / because there are / no moral answers…”
Dusk in October 2023

“When the dark comes, let it. In its own way, it offers us balm.”
Water

“I am thirsty to return to the peace
of our peoplehood…”
The Ink On Your Arm

“What things do you have planned?
Do you march with torches?
Do you scream out for our death?”
Reaching Out

“reaching toward me, / as alive and animated / as my own unimaginable heart–”
Mirror of Peace

“Can we be mirrors of each others’ light?”
Celebration

“the shared livestream of celebrated death, / night and day of shattered glass.”