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“The water waited to see the animals again, / the shapes they would assume and the sounds they’d make…”
“Prophecy is the glue that yokes today / with tomorrow, it is one hopeful word…”
“The stone, once mud  at the bottom of the ocean / pressed into rock by time, / will outlast me.”
“Praying at The Wall, / Rav Kook’s Four-Fold Song / Singing in my ear…”
“To calm the tide of polarities Endeavor to massage and find similarities…”
“There are ashes sunken within us / in places that feel too deep to touch…”
Let me remember my breath on the wind as / Fragile / Fleeting / Precious
“Thank you G-d, for worn spines and fragile paper…”
“Some time ago (I can’t say when) it leeched into my thoughts as through a cracked wall, / a breach in my otherwise fortified mind.”
“What if we understood / that shalom swirls through the worlds…”

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