Home in the Diaspora, Poetics Of
Home in the Diaspora, Poetics Of
Owen Lewis Nathan Mcclain Aaron Coleman Wendy French Eamonn Wall
The Jewish Diaspora Owen Lewis
A Non-Christian on Sunday
Amy Gerstler
Now we heathens have the town to ourselves. We lie around, munching award-winning pickles and hunks of coarse, seeded bread smeared with soft, sweet cheese. The streets seem deserted, as if Godzilla had been sighted on the horizon, kicking down the skyscrapers and flattening cabs. Only two people are lined up to see a popular movie in which the good guy and the bad guy trade faces. Churches burst into song. Trees wish for a big wind. Burnt bacon and domestic tension scent the air. So do whiffs of lawn mower exhaust mixed with the colorless blood of clipped hedges. For whatever's about to come crashing down on our heads, be it bliss-filled or heinous, make us grateful, OK? Hints of the savior's flavor buzz on our tongues, like crumbs of a sleeping pill shaped like a snowflake.
FOR MY MOTHER & HER ANCESTOR, AKIBA
Muriel Ruckeyser
Wherever I walked I went green among young growing Along the same song, Mother, even along this grass Where, Mother, tombstones stand each in its pail of shade In Trinity yard were you at lunchtime came As a young workingwoman, Mother, bunches of your grapes Pressing your life into mine, Mother, And I never cared for these tombs and graves But they are your book-keeper hours You said to me summers later, deep in your shiniest car As a different woman, Mother, and I your poem-making daughter-- "Each evening after I worked all day for the lock-people "I wished under a green sky on the young evening start-- "What did I wish for?" What did you wish for, Mother? "I wished for a man, of course, anywhere in my world, "And there was Trinity graveyard and the tall New York steeples."
Wherever I go, Mother, I stay away from graves But they turn everywhere in the turning world; now, Mother Rachel's, on the road from Jerusalem. And mine is somewhere turning unprepared In the earth or among trhe whirling air. My workingwoman mother is saying to me, Girl-- Years before her rich needy unreal years-- Whatever work you do, always make sure You can go walking, not like me, shut in your hours.
Mother I walk, going even here in green Galilee Where our ancestor Akiba, resisted Rome,
Singing forever for the Song of Songs Even in torture knowing, Mother, I walk, this blue, The Sea, Mother, this hillside, to his great white stone. And again here in New York later I come alone To you, Mother, I walk, making our poems.
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