Roald Dahl's abusive comments made about the Jewsshould not be treated by his many readers with impunity,in contrast to my sympathetic but aberrant viewswhich...
This poem originally published December 11, 2019
Somewhere along the Jabbok River
which has a different name if you come
from the other side of the family
Jacob...
Of life’s artistry interpreters, we find originality
a commodity that’s very rare.
Artfully we all try to fine-tune without finality
great melodies already in the air.
Sting (Gordon...
This is why on Thanksgiving non-vegetarians
have a custom to eat turkey.
It’s because the tasty bird was thought to come from
India, whose Hebraic name
is hodu,...
Jacob and Esau
fighting in the womb
like kittens
one escapes, the other
hanging on by a foot.
Our first family
ladies and gentleman.
One grows hair while
their father grows blind.
One...
Aren’t the heavens far too far from earth
for us to pay them very much attention?
Should not earth’s accommodating girth,
despite its gross distension and pretension,
inspire...
I
A child is born.
They name him laughter.
Another child is sent away
as if blood doesn’t exist.
The original seeds
of a divided Jerusalem
are sown right here.
Hardly anyone...
A Reflection:
Life's paradox and promise:
continuity across time,
minute modifications day by day,
as living things reinvent themselves
in a flow
that shifts caterpillars into butterflies
tadpoles into leaping frogs....
It’s not a good sign when
already in chapter two
everything gets destroyed.
It’s the same way with my son
and the instructions-less Lego sets.
He builds and builds
and...
In the beginning God made everything.
According to scientists, the beginning
took billions of years.
I’ve taken to counting my ribs.
I want there to be one less...
Remember the days of old; reflect
upon the years of generations
I’m as nostalgic as they come.
I remember walking around my high school
during the first...
