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“In Hebrew, shakan, dwelling place, often referred to a royal residence. / The rabbis gave it a feminine ending: Shekhinah. Divine mother.”
A poem about the gift of Torah and the covenant between the poet and God.
A reminder of our covenant with the Source of Life.
A poem on the inconsistency of time passing.
A poem for the new moon.
“May the cries of every neshama / Be rendered into / Notes of comfort…”
“Blessed are You, / Eternal One / Who drapes the evening shadows / …And passes / Even the hardest day / To its end.”
“G-d forbid we eat grocery store drek.”
“If you were not, / I never would have seen the face of creation.”
“temples of leaves / firmaments of roots”

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