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Poems & Lyrics

Lifeboat Blues
Cross-checking beliefs in a cathedral of factsa Library of Congress where I browse in the stacksthe smile on my plaster of Paris death mask cracksas I prepare for my imminent sea voyage...
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Paint of the Masterpiece
I’m a standing wave in the river of KronosI’m the singer, the sing-songwriter, and all that I sangI’m in the vestibule of the World to Come, with Eros and LogosMade of stardust – dust to dust – from the great Big Bang...
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Paradise Now, for Eight
(with apologies to Attila Jozsef 1905-1937)
If you want to go to Mount Olympus in the True NorthBetter find the eight pillars of paradise:One, the pantheon of punchlines;One, the concepts of concepts;One, the charges which are levelled;One, a Canadian Shield Rock band;One, the lines of songs that colonize your mind;One, the lands in which we sojourn;One, the sea of language that we share.But those seven pillars of paradise are not enough;We ourselves are the eighth.
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Pardes of Wadi YahTalk
It was a field trip in the Pardes of Wadi YahTalk:a one-day pilgrimage festival for three perpetual students of the eternal,a wandering choir of soloists sight reading libretto marked on fig leavesfrom a fig tree of knowledge that grew there, in the Pardes of Wadi YahTalk. The interpretation of: every thing. Illuminated by the lifted veil of desert light,
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שביליסט
פתחן כנגד רצונות וכיסופים תפילה; כביטול עצמי
בבני ברק ראיתי כלניות בין עפר הגבעה קטפתי מעץ דעת טוב ורע ברמת השרון
.לגימה .הפוך על הפוך .שיתקזו
...מתבונן מתהולך בשביל ישראל
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מִפְגַש המַקוֹם
מִפְגַש המַקוֹםטיסה ישירה מחו’ללהבנת אחד העם בארץאיך באחוזת צברבבֵית ראשונים.בונים לגובה
אבני פינהראשי בוֹנִיםחוֹלֵי יַם ופלִיטֵי יַבָשוֹת.חִימַר מכל העולם
דָרכֵי סִטְרָה ונועםתפוזֵי זהב ונחושת,טחון קפה, תוֹכְנָה, כְפִיַהקַבָלִים ואִיסורִין...חוש, וחלילה
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