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Poetry

Poem: Cracking the Sky

It’s time to talk about grief\nas if the mere mention could\ncrack the sky leaving the stars\nto break through shattering\nafternoon’s complacency.

Letter to the Lord

Lord quite innocent of what it is to live\nbound in paper, bound in steel,\nbound in the incredible ignorance supplied\nby irony and suffering — how are You?

Psalm

like a skin on milk\nI write to you

Poem: Return to the Stone of Losses

We stood as she instructed around the stone of losses,\ndeclared what we had found\nand waited for other Jews to claim it.

Poem: Grandchild

I take her to the park, I swing her in the little swing\nHelp her on the slide, lotion her face and arms against the sun\nShe runs around in her little bluejeans

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