To Adaya
Gees
Came this Saturday
morning all at once to tell
they are going away for the winter.
They asked where are you and I said
She is in the East. They said nothing
and disappeared.
I opened the window
to hear your life.
Nov.22.2008
Women who want to read Psalms in Hebrew
There is a new feeling of okness in the air
Steady, subtle Okness.
In the kitchen, I move
from one thing to another
I talk on the phone I brush my hair,
This is my skin, my eyes
are deep and accepting.
I teach the aleph and the beit
in the living room. Aleph stand for
The paradox between Man and God.
“Don’t say man” asks my new student Ann,
a professor of women studies kindly. “It’s disturbing”
she says.
The drapes are orange, the French doors behind.
My new student Ann wants to read
Psalms
In Hebrew. We understand each other.
I understand women who wants
To read Psalms in Hebrew.
The day passes.
Not too fast
Not too slow. I know where I am.
It’s the beginning of fall.
The light is starting to change.
In me, it’s been, for some time now,
a new state of okness.
2008–10–31