Maggid: This is the story we tell Elliott batTzedek This is the story we tell: We were a small tribe, extended family, really, in a small part of a small land. Drought came. We followed the rumors of food and water, immigrated to where a family member had set already a footprint. We stayed there, … Continue reading Maggid
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Praying with Fringes 09/07/2016 – We name it the past and drag it behind us
Dark Charms Dorianne Laux Eventually the future shows up everywhere: those burly summers and unslept nights in deep lines and dark splotches, thinning skin. Here's the corner store grown to a condo, the bike reduced to one spinning wheel, the ghost of a dog that used to be, her trail no longer trodden, just a … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 09/07/2016 – We name it the past and drag it behind us
Praying with Fringes 03/05/2014 – with his immaculate bib, sooty jacket
Barbara Crooker will be reading at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy on Sunday, April 6th 2014 at 1 pm. Come meet her and hear more of her marvelous poetry The Slate Grey Junco Barbara Crooker with his immaculate bib, sooty jacket, bobs in the snow for sunflower seeds. Caught between two needs, hunger … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 03/05/2014 – with his immaculate bib, sooty jacket
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah 