Friday afternoon: The rabbi’s wife
Jewish Journal
December 19, 2013
Inside the yeshiva he’s busy naming things
Category
Poetry
Poem: Isaac Bashevis Singer in the Reading Room, 1968
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2013
This old man in the armchair’s plush embrace waits for his thoughts to settle.
Poem: Sound Advice
Jewish Journal
December 5, 2013
You have to know\nwho to talk to:\nchoose a dry\ncistern
My daughter was born on my mother’s Yahrzeit
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2013
All morning I thought of my mother, how often we waited for her to die and then the affront of it
Poem: Jacob After Fording the Jabbok
Jewish Journal
November 13, 2013
All night long I\nwrestled with an angel — his face
Discourse on the crippled God
Jewish Journal
October 30, 2013
A man swings through the open doors on crutches,\nhis long arms thick with muscle like the Christ
Poem: In the same key (Chayyei Sarah)
Jewish Journal
October 23, 2013
They come together to bury their father\nin the cave where Sarah’s body lies.
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