Type: Poem

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“We will sing for freedom, / clap our hands for freedom.”
man with outstretched arms silhouetted from behind, facing the sunrise
“…moons of freedom / blessing the nights.”
full moon over bushes in the night sky
“12 months of mourning, / Travelling, conjoined, / On our continuing / Separate ways.”
dark water with bubbles of light
“If we remember the daily count / will new paths open in the heavens?”
woman in profile standing on sand dune in the desert
“May my words be embodied. / May my life be lived as prayer.”
woman blowing a handful of confetti into the night
“…I wish to take a redcedar frond, salal and spirea, and pacific crab apple and bring them together…”
redcedar branches
“The next day, returning from a hike Shabbat afternoon, the time of ra’ava d’ra’avin, desire of all desires, a tune came to me, the Juan the Fuca nigun.”
a pacific beach with a line of trees and a large rock
An interpretive reading of the Ten Commandments
ten commandments on tablets in the desert

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Learning to Say "We": Writing Identity

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