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“I cradled your / black-inked letters, letters overflowing with infinity…”
“Loved ones and friends, and / strangers– / in a blink, in a flash, forever lost. / This day, today…”
“The cries that carry / from one end  of the earth / to the other.”
“What happened to our prayers, O God? Did You hear them? When? Who? Where?”
“But today, there are not enough words in the Psalm / to cover the number of victims of this hate.” 
“let us shape the fire of our bruised backs into the peaceful streams of clearing throats…”
“I didn’t fast on Yom Kippur / But I mended my relationship with my spouse and children by being present in the moment and honest about my feelings in a positive way…”
“Sometimes there is not /  enough space / to contain all of the grief.”

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