for chochmat halev's tu b'av (jewish valentine's day) service, 5781 <3 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Love is illogical...

~ ~~ ~~~ ~~ ~ like a sprout straining its curled spine against the husk like a baby pressing its face against the restaurant's window...

Earth Day Kaddish for Chochmat HaLev 4th Fridays, Iyar 11/12 5781 ~~~ Yitgadal v’yitkadash shmei raba: Huge and holy may the great name...

change like it's love there is no permanence easy to lean into i talked to my best friend yesterday about how it feels to love to trust...

the gates are closed my fate is sealed and now I sit here with what's real the gates are closed my fate is sealed and now I sit here with...

we are but dust and ash we are but souls breathed into a body we are but divine breath, strained through a mask we are but dust and ash...

just. remember. there is only one air. no here, nor there when it comes to our breath in december it catches our chest in may, it might...

like a perfect pearl in the smallest jewelry box you hold me so close i barely know i'm being held i rock side to side in your endless...

havdallah tonight at the albany bulb was a contest of lights to the west, as the sky sunk into its foggy orange sleep the hills of marin...

they used to light them up, two-by-two, for the honor of the day each witch like a shabbes candlestick with warped glee in the...

she took her sweet time two years of pot-into-sink 1-minute-running-water back-to-the-windowsill-shelf wipe-down-the-spill she waited...

shabbes didn't come to me like a queen this week she came like a wall she came like a thick slab of mud, or a defensive line-backer like...

inside im all this kaleidoscope of colors inside theres an algae-bloom ocean, rolling every few seconds, red and green waves, against my...

look at me not at my image not at my pixels not at the screen but at me pay attention not to the rectangle sliding in from the top...

last night i heard two people harmonizing on zoom they were quarantined together, and sharing a song, at an evening of song-sharing and...

it's the voyage, gorgeous it's letting the salt water lift your back, the sun bake your belly, it's ending up somewhere far-off course watch