Poems

Poetry. Jewish Studies. On writing CITY OF SKYPAPERS: "CITY OF SKYPAPERS was an effort of daily writing in Tel Aviv for a span of about three years during which time I tried to inhabit and reconcile Jewish sacred time (holidays, Shabbat, daily prayer rituals) with private, social, and civil secular time--two wars with their worries and missiles, explosions, and a sense of solidarity, as well, with beloved friends in Gaza or West Bank, a custody lawsuit, daily small-scale agriculture, running along the Yarkon river, riding public transportation in Tel Aviv and Ramat-Gan, teaching, friendship, love and its disappointments, mothering. It attempts an openness to the daily world, and an attention to these details, charged by an interpenetration of the sacred and the secular, aspirations and reality. I wanted to mimic in writing the way the mind works, the reality its imagination builds, the relationships it creates, among people, objects, and geography

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To Get Here Today (A Piano) -- After Shmita Year -- It's Better to be Smart than Right -- Other People's Birthdays -- Gas Canisters and Miracles -- Purim -- Genesis --

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Siren: Silence -- Peas (and the woman in the blue hijab -- Correspondence -- Giant White Squill -- Garden, with jawbone -- Physicians in the Dark -- On the other hand, every tree and reed and bird I see this morning is preening -- Golden Jackals -- Eshel -- Skyping into Gaza -- Bright Lord (There are muscles everywhere) -- Consolation -- Surface Tension -- Bad Guys -- Welcome to Israel in Translation --

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When I Sit and When I Stand -- Untoward -- Tel Aviv Municipality Garbage and Waste Management -- Sudoku -- Men's Shoe Season -- Until Further Notice