Topic Tags: noah

“Everyone came on deck to look and wonder and exclaim how beautiful, and I was quite satisfied with the result…”

This poem is in a form called ‘Jewku’, containing 36 syllables.

This painting is part of a series of visual midrash (sacred commentary) on the first Book of the Bible, Bereshit | Genesis.

“Who will I be / as this stormy year unfolds?”

“The water waited to see the animals again, / the shapes they would assume and the sounds they’d make…”

“Proof that if you look / beyond flood waters, / there will be dry land…”

Too often we fear placing ourselves in another’s shoes because it is hard to feel their pain. Or because it may destabilize our convictions and force us to challenge our own positions. We must fight our own resistance.

“What about the kids in war, my nieces ask? / They hide, the eldest says.”

“We are living / as if in an experiment…”