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Grandmother Bakes a Psalm

by Judy Belsky

This reads like counterpoint in music. A very serious poem with a Purim perspective. You need Purim once a year to see things through different glasses - preferably drinking ones.]

wake early Exalt

the living G-d

stretch dough thinner than

you think it will reach

He is One no unity like His Oneness

but not to the point

of transparency

no body

press out circles

with a water glass

His holiness has no equal

place heaping spoonful

His flow of prophecy

at the center of every circle

Master to every creature

crimp edges

some will escape

to His treasured people

none like Moses will rise again

bake until plump and golden

His clear vision

allow to cool

the perfect sized pans

G-d will never amend or change

His laws for all eternity

permit the contents to grow

against the tension of sides

test with tines of fork

our innermost secrets

He perceives the outcome

at the beginning

He will revive the dead

awaken the children

in abundant kindness

sing together

blessed forever

His name

serve

layered

the language

of my childhood.

 

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