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 mathematics
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