Morning Song Marcia F. Brown Here, I place a blue glazed cup where the wood is slightly whitened. Here, I lay down two bright spoons, our breakfast saucers, napkins white and smooth as milk. I am stirring at the sink, I am stirring the amount of dew you can gather in two hands, folding it … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 1/15/2014 – it could almost be answer
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Praying with Fringes 12/13/2013 – in tangled script against the white
Shoveling Snow Kirsten Dierking If day after day I was caught inside this muffle and hush I would notice how birches move with a lovely hum of spirits, how falling snow is a privacy warm as the space for sleeping, how radiant snow is a dream like leaving behind the body and rising into that … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 12/13/2013 – in tangled script against the white
Praying with Fringes 12/06/2013 – I, may I rest in peace
I, May I Rest in Peace Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld I, may I rest in peace – I, who am still living, say, May I have peace in the rest of my life. I want peace right now while I’m still alive. I don’t want to wait like that pious … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 12/06/2013 – I, may I rest in peace
Praying with Fringes 12/05/2013 – this bank on which the living gather
[This is what was bequeathed to us] Gregory Orr This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 12/05/2013 – this bank on which the living gather
Praying with Fringes 11/3/2013: The Bronze Bells of Autumn
Bronze Bells of Autumn Linda Pastan Although I’ve made a kind of peace with those I loved who are already dead, bronze bells of autumn, in their minor key, toll for the losses still ahead. The weather tells a narrative of change; the wind prepares a path the geese will take. This frost is beautiful, … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 11/3/2013: The Bronze Bells of Autumn
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah 