Type: Poem

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“We will sing for freedom, / clap our hands for freedom.”
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“…moons of freedom / blessing the nights.”
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“12 months of mourning, / Travelling, conjoined, / On our continuing / Separate ways.”
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“If we remember the daily count / will new paths open in the heavens?”
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“May my words be embodied. / May my life be lived as prayer.”
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“…I wish to take a redcedar frond, salal and spirea, and pacific crab apple and bring them together…”
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“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.”
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