Type: Poem

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An interpretive reading of the Ten Commandments
ten commandments on tablets in the desert
“A cosmos of vibrations / Held gently within / This boundary / That is me.”
a woman silhouetted against a starry night sky
“Pesakh’s blue plate, / a strange / and yet familiar / gathering of ingredients”
seder plate with greens, egg, shank bone, haroset, maror
“Four and a half years have passed / Much of the world seems to have / forgotten / But we never will”
dandelion fluff blowing in the wind
“Any ‘I love you’ / Like water, uncontained / Can have no form.”
woman standing in a canyon stream facing a waterfall
“We have been waiting for you”
closeup of newborn white baby held by adult white hands
“Aleph: The silence before the beginning”
deep blue sky with cloud in white, light pink, darker pink, and purple
“She taught me to walk headlong … into impossible waters”
woman with long brown hair shown from behind in a white tunic sitting in desert sand, her arms raised to the sky with arcs of sand falling on both sides, looking at setting sun in grayish brown cloudy sky
“Each new moon we begin / with a sliver / of an idea”
woman in silhouette with arms outspread and hair blowing standing or spinning or dancing in front a purple pink night sky with silver of new moon and stars
“We need both light / And darkness / In order to grow”
black and white photo of woman dancing, arms in the air, head down. She is wearing sunglasses and has her hair up in buns.

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