Type: Poem

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“Listen for the Silver Trumpet’s high notes…”
person shown far away in silhouette against a sky in which the sun has set and the sky is blue yellow and orange
“I sit beside you / as twilight turns to night…”
Full moon rises over misty, snow-covered mountains and dark pine forests at dusk.
“We are still only days into our wandering…” ;
a person walkingthrough the desert, the sunset is ahead
“At Shavuot, the Angels ask / Have you forgotten why you are here?”
clouds reflected in the sea
“Where you go, I will go, I told my small sons…”
a child's feet
We go on with warrants and bombs for those, much like ourselves, we might better have intended to love….”
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“Then the unbroken rush of praise exhaled…”
a brown feathered sparrpw sits on a wooden fence
“Proof that if you look / beyond flood waters, / there will be dry land…”
a white dove opening its wings
“you are embedded / at the heart of existence / the spark / that sets in motion…”
constellations in a black and purple sky
“you will know a tidal surge / part marvel part mystery…”
a pregnant woman touches her belly, a dog lies sleeping at her feet

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