Hank Lazer
By Hank Lazer
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The Schmooze POEM: 4/2/07 (for the New Haggadah)
we pray to pray to be able to not a matter of if but a matter of when in hard times in tough times sing the blues to the ones you love begin with the love at hand begin by listening begin by saying we pray to pray to be able to…
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The Schmooze POEM: ’10/20/07′
it sounds like a kind of whispering intercessor said in a hush said behind your back like ruach a breath making room within you though the eyes look outward & so a jewish poetics is to think about a jewish poetics i am a what & so in all of this there is a hidden…
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The Schmooze POEM: ‘Shabbat’
this morning i am at rest hidden beneath a prayer shawl draped over my head i am chanting your name the un pronounceable one something indistinct whispering through my lips ruach the breath you gave me
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