Type: Poem

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Those they call vile things / are an homage / to Her beauty
an assortment of Astarte figurines representing the goddess Asherah
My husband stokes the fire / with wood the children gathered / I knead the dough – / an offering for the Source of all
green olives on an olive tree
The toy Solar System / gets the revolutions right / but a true scale model / would take up half of town / .
a horizon with the slight orange glow of a sun setting underneath a dark purple night sky dotted with stars and a cloud formation
A Poem for the Removal of Uterine Fibroids
swirling colors representing the universe
“I have no people and my God makes me mourn…”
a fiery sunset of orange and yellow
“The water waited to see the animals again, / the shapes they would assume and the sounds they’d make…”
the raging waters of a flood
“Prophecy is the glue that yokes today / with tomorrow, it is one hopeful word…”
reflection of reeds in the Sea
“The stone, once mud  at the bottom of the ocean / pressed into rock by time, / will outlast me.”
large rock jutting into the water. A person stands on the rock's edge looking out into a bright, cloudy horizon
“Praying at The Wall, / Rav Kook’s Four-Fold Song / Singing in my ear…”
Person in a white shirt holding their chest with both hands outdoors at sunset, suggesting chest pain.
“To calm the tide of polarities Endeavor to massage and find similarities…”
a mountain range with the blue sky above

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