Inspired by Yehuda Amichai (2000),Open closed open. Translated by Chana Bloch & Chana Kronfeld My life is the gardener of my body. The brain – a hothouse closed tight
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La Petite Mort
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Mortality, Sexuality, Spirituality on July 4, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Succumbing to the smoothest of fingers, I die. A little death, a divine death, releasing just enough of me into the plain where souls meet and dance, leaving just enough of me to remember that in order to live again everything must die.
I awoke before you
Posted in Connection, Romance, Spirituality on June 20, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Desert morning sunrise poured through the skylight emblazoning the ivory disarray – pillows, sheets, blankets, limbs – long before one of the peaceful sleepers hoped to wake. The poet sleeps more lightly than the storyteller.
Invitation to the Dance
Posted in Connection, Love, Space/Universe, Spirituality on April 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Between galaxies, there is nothing. Empty space. Unmeasurably vast, deep expanses of a kind of nothing we can’t fathom, can’t name.