Poems and fiction--a rabbi's Jewish and general writing.

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This selection of my poems, which I have listed in alphabetical order, include nature, spiritual, political and more individual themes. 

RECENT POEMS

Arthritic Hands

As If The Bay Were Breathing

But It's Only A Tree

Her Daughter's Eulogy

In A Shaft Of Light

Leaves Floating

Lord Of The Estate

Tree Or Wood

 

SELECTED POEMS

A Flock of Leaves

 A Prairie Of Spartina Grass (A Prose-Poem)

A Tree's Prayer

Air Dissolves Into Water

Alone Now

Alternative Lives

An Apparition

Artist's Colors, Exterior and Interior

Assisted Living

At The Edge

Bathing Beauties

Bayman's Haiku

Black Box

Blended Family

Breathing

The Build-Up

Burying Mommy

Calm Day On The Water

Coming Home

Company

Costa Rica

Dealing With Defeat

Deflation

Deluge (A Prose-Poem)

Early Spring

Earphones

Eight By Eighteen Inches

Elijah's Chariot

Enough To Stop The Heart

Erratics And Kettle Holes

Face

Facing The Corner

Fantasy In The Chill Of A Pale Gray Day

Fear

Filigree of Branches

Flowers Struggle

Footprints

Fred's Birthday

Fur Coat

Generations

God Bless America

God Drawing In The Sky

God The Juggler

Gold Watch

Good Night Kiss

Gray Sheet

Hammock Is A Basket

He Won't Sleep In Their Bed

Her Day Dream

Horntails

How Beautiful Is Its Fur

ICU

I Felt Like A Boy Again

If I Weren't Afraid

Imagined Pleasures

In Early Spring

In March

In Praise Of Childishness

Irony

January Tears

Jointing Boards

Kayaking Lake Taghkanic

Kissing In Shul

Late October

Like A Tulip

Listen To The Stillness

Logger

Low Tide

Lupines

Magnificent

Malevolent Mist

The Man Holding The Paper Cup

Matisse's Pink Nude

Mercy Killing

Merely

Missing

Mist Sky

Mommy, Daddy, Daughter

Night Club Dancers

Noon Garden Tour With My Granddaughter

Not Wind-Up Toys

Outside My Window

The Note

Park Scene

Parkway

Party On The Parkway

Pay Homage to Winter

Perhaps

Planting Irises

Purpose

Quiet Enough To Hear God

Rally To Save Darfur

Refugees

Releasing The Light

Repentance

Roots Exposed

Roses And Cow Manure

Secret Shame

September 10, 2001

Sign Of Things To Come

Sleep

Sneakers

Soft As Kisses

Sometimes We Need Saving

Staring Into The Black

Staying Alive

Staying In The Lines

Suburban Sky

Suburban Street

Surrealism In Shocking-Pink

The Sun So Angry

Sweet Solitude

Sycamore Tree

Tears

Temple Rummage Numbers

The First Night And Day 

The Inn's Parking Lot

The Ship of State

The Unseen Elevator

The Way of All Flesh

There Is A Man

There's A Story In The Garbage

Thin Hipped Herons

This Morning's Eternity

Tides

Times Square, December 31, 2001

Too Still To Breathe

Touching

Transplanting

Tree Pictures

Two Notes

"...Under The Apple Tree..."

Valentines

The Waitress

Washington On The Eve Of War

We Are All Diminished

We Live In Such A World

Wetlands And Chain Stores

What Goes Unsaid

White Ferry, Black Crows

White Pine And Me

Who Lives, Who Dies

Who Would Have Believed

Winter Airing

Winter Gray

Winter Music

Yitzchak

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