New Beginning in Israel
Menachem Begin was Dodo’s first cousin. Dodo lived on the ground floor and she and my mother were best friends. Sometimes I babysat her dog… Read More »New Beginning in Israel
Menachem Begin was Dodo’s first cousin. Dodo lived on the ground floor and she and my mother were best friends. Sometimes I babysat her dog… Read More »New Beginning in Israel
Twisted Bay laurel trunks lean down the hillside branches covered in moss scarves quail make a quick exit like a troupe of dancers racing across… Read More »Golem Takes a Hike on Black Friday
In my dreams, he stretches far or holds the hand of shadows lags behind as I try to catch up my Rebbe of Prague who installed me inside… Read More »The Golem Muses Upon the Wonder Rebbe of Prague
Before I could subscribe his ears to the terracotta soothings of past times, I tried to cheer his decomposed spirits, played around with a bronze coin… Read More »Magic Trick Toss
The way forward is with a broken heart. –Alice Walker (With thanks to Elizabeth Bishop, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Sinatra and W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan)… Read More »Mortal
I look at the walls of your town house where you lived for more than forty years and died after your hundredth birthday just as… Read More »Ode to Aunt Elsie
what a Chabad past telephone poles to the top of the World Trade Tower brought me back down to earth thinking it wasn’t me who blew out the candles
My port-a-potty, but right now not feeling proud being related to Sarah, Rachel and Miriam, daughter of Lilith, member of an ancient tribe
“Lenore Weiss’ psychic linguistic engagement borders on the transcendent, the mystical and familiar.”
–Sharon Doubiago, author and member, PEN Oakland
and maybe it will be a promised land when values can run wild
and trump the Trumps everywhere