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Poetry: Fridays

good shoppers trampled a man
to death does laziness save lives?

Poem: The Wadi

Just as the souls
departed my body

Poem: The Magic

My students visit me in the basement.

Poem: When I Grow Up

When I grow up I want to be born, how fabulous would that be —\nto emerge from the ocean ready to start breathing?

Bob Dylan and Philip Roth bring it all back home

As a fan who runs the “Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Jews” website, I should be ecstatic at the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to the writer whose words have been the soundtrack to my life since I first sang them at a Jewish summer camp some 40-odd years ago.

Poetry: Wind

It begins, you imagine,\nas something captured —

Poem: Yom Kippur

On holiest day dismal I digest myself, composed.\nThere will be one of these each year, specific apology,

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