I
Spy instructions: Check
out the land we may invade –
Also, bring back fruit
II
Any excuse to
go back to Egypt – Life was
hard but familiar
III
Once again God is
talked out of killing us all
by a mere human
IV
Seize the day or you
could end up wandering the
desert forty years
V
A recipe to
serve bull to God is
here if you need it
VI
Even the Lord likes
the smell of homemade bread as
much as the next guy
VII
These hanging fringes
keep the light of the righteous
always by my side
Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert created a the Poetry Super Highway (an online publication and resource for poets), and hosted the Cobalt Cafe weekly poetry reading for almost 21 years. He’s authored 20 collections of poetry, including “I’m a Jew, Are You” (Jewish themed poems) and “Feeding Holy Cats” (Poetry written while a staff member on the first Birthright Israel trip), and most recently “Donut Famine” (Rothco Press, December 2016) and edited the anthologies “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, and “The Night Goes on All Night.” He writes the daily web comic “Cat and Banana” with fellow Los Angeles poet Brendan Constantine. He’s widely published and reads his poetry wherever they let him.
