I dreamt of the dreamer-son much-loved long-awaited wrapped in a chromatic cloak of words, envisioning spirits ascending and descending the ephemeral ladder, connecting earthly striving and eternal longings.
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
The Language of Color
Posted in Bible Story, Dreams, Falling in Love on August 12, 2018 | 1 Comment »
Grave Song
Posted in Daughters, Fathers, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality on June 8, 2018 | 2 Comments »
I strain to hear your prayers in the song of the wind in the olive trees
Knowing it’s the End
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Fear, Hebrew School, Mortality, The Shoah on February 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
On January 13, 2018, an employee of the Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency issued a ballistic missile alert. Thirty eight minutes later, a second message was sent, describing it as a “false alarm.” Here’s a modern day math problem: After launch, a missile travels 4600 miles. At an average speed of 306.67 miles per hour, […]
Yarzheit Light
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Prayer on January 8, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
-Jan 6, 2018 Today is the 19th of Tevet the moon wanes gibbous the indolent sun rouses a mere 8 hours and 37 minutes. It is the dead of winter which could be a metaphor except it is winter and you are still dead, Dad, no bud or blossom gathering nourishment to bloom forth […]
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I married the man from an unbroken line of cattle rustlers and outlaws misogynists and God-fearers hard drinkers and card players good-ole boys and long-suffering wives descendants of those with skin white enough to hold slaves own vast farmland distill spirits to make it through North Dakota winters and high plains droughts.