Shadow placed at my feet like a cat’s gift.
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Offering
Posted in Natural World, Prayer, Spirituality on May 27, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Golem
Posted in Adam and Eve, Bible Story, Golem, Legends and Mythology, Sculpture on April 8, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Speak, so that I may see you. ― Socrates Wet hands on red clay, folding, molding it into the Creator’s image. Cheekbones smoothed by thumbs, eye sockets scooped out by moistened fingers, orbs tenderly placed within
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
Posted in Ancestry, Bible Story, DNA, Exile, Willow on January 26, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
The expansive bowed head of the weeping willow obscured the street, illusion of isolation inked permanent. Unobstructed, its water-seeking roots could not reach pipes or property lines.
Pilgrimage
Posted in Deities, Pilgrimage, Solitude, Spirituality on January 15, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
From the hollow where there should be mother/father/lover/song/child/pet/friend/book/nature all the names for God I unexpectedly wretched.
Broken string
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Israel, Prayer, The Soul on October 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
-in memoriam for the more than 1300 Israelis murdered by Hamas militants this week and –in honor of the courage of the remaining Hamas hostages Captors cover my eyes, disorient dismember one by one, leave open my ears to vibrations of panic and despair. I percuss the beat of the wish for death, frantic shallow […]