Instructions and Blessing for Drag Queens
“Exalt the Divine within you and around you.”
Sukkah, 2022, Incomplete
“Every day we exist inside unfinished business.”
At My Birthday Party
A poem on counting the years with your grandchildren.
A Petition During These Days of Renewed Antisemitism
A prayer for understanding when faced with antisemitism
The World and Our Place Within it, in Three Parts
“Through the hundreds of mitzvot / You are trying to teach us / How to live a life / In reverence of interconnection…”
Wherever There Is Pride, There Is Hope: A Pride Month Kavanah on the Avot
“And wherever there is Pride, there is hope. / And wherever there is hope, there is joy. / And wherever there is joy, there is life. / And that life is sweet, and full of love.”
Collective Birkat HaGomel/et, June 2023
A blessing for a day with clean air.
The Ruakh of Shabbat
“Shabbat holds / Herself open. / All we need do / Is breathe, / And receive Her.”
A Prayer For Breathing
“May our breaths continue / And our health and the health of all / Be preserved / In this time of haze, fire and climate disaster.”
Like the Arrow that Flies by Day (Psalm 91:5): A Prayer for Calm Coherence in the Midst of the Chaos of Daily Life
“May memory be a protective seawall / to re-call me: / it’s all about the breath.”
