Type: Poem

“What are my hollow prayers, compared to this, / this whirling, twirling, joyous atonement alive?”

“Sing and dance in exaltation, / gift of wisdom; truths conferred.”

“So I studied my family’s history her story / create joy in her holy days…”

“They will sing to you melodies of ascent…”

“those who dance as they hold as they dance through all life; those who reach up from a wheelchair; out from a walker; or wobbling, out from a cane.”

“The voice of a hazan may soar to the top of the ark and beyond…”

“Shivering, I emerge, / wrapping up in my robe…”

“Wrapping myself in the words, / dancing letters curving around me…”

“For whom did the shofar call? The shofar called for me.”

“Before us—everything; / After us—everything.”