Type: Poem

“I was certain I’d never be Sarah ema, the matriarch  / It’s no secret, I laughed at the messengers…”

“Undone and mystified by divine reason, we bask in the source of all things who watches us create fragile wings of our own.”

“Our lives are held within the boundaries of HaMakom, And our living moulded by the laws of the Holder.”

“May her dreams be fulfilled And if not, know she is a woman worth more than rubies.”

“Where the beginning is inside the middle, / the love strong enough to let go, and / the love strong enough to hold on.”

“i am not clean / because i have been emptied i am clean / because i am full”

“I’m trying to figure out how to make enough / soup and 22 matzoh balls using the condo’s one large pot…”

“The thing about I-Thou is that it’s eternal. / Once you have found it, never let it go.”

“We dance around each other in intertwining circles; I learned my dance in Egypt, And you learned yours in Canaan.”

The prayer-poem imagines a world where the one in need of healing becomes a source of comfort.