Alone
“We are with each other.
We are not alone. / We will do what we have always done.”
My Own Thinking Heart
“I am left with only my own thinking heart / in this nightmare humanity has dreamt / for itself.”
Heartbreak
“Seeking an impossible calm, we bed / down our gardens for the winter, / wishing we too could sleep soundly.”
Give Yourself Up Not
This powerful poem was written during the Yom Kippur war in 1973.
A Prayer for Healing Relationships Within the Jewish Community
“When I raise my voice in anger, help me see the Divine Spark in my opponent.”
A New Song of Hope – For a Community Gathered in Solidarity
“Today, I call for hope. / Tomorrow, I call for peace. / Forever, I call for justice”
An Unetaneh Tokef* for Today
The poet frames the loss of life in Israel and in Gaze with this powerful liturgy
May God Remember Us: An Interfaith Prayer for Transgender Day of Remembrance
God, who answered our genderqueer ancestor Jacob when they wrestled with the Angel– May God answer us God, who answered our genderqueer ancestor Joseph when they were in the […]
A Thousandfold
a beloved friend tells me there are two times in a Jew’s life Shabbat and waiting for Shabbat this week I left behind those blessed hours and was immediately […]
An Artist’s Prayer on a Particularly Existential Rosh Hashanah
“Sweet, viscous, and dripping off an apple…”
