Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Jewish month of Shvat

 The Flow
Midwinter wraps me in a cloak of loving kindness
While tears of humility fall to the lowest level
Filling their very source
And in time rise up in the smallest trickle of hope
Through a core of barren bark and broken dreams
To restore and renew the spirit of Gavriel,
Warrior, protector—made of fire
Angel Gavriel, with wings of flame flaring and floating,
Rising from the very trunk that feeds her
No tears wasted
All of them—every last one of them—returning
And then churning up the force that sustains me
During my midwinter of loving kindness
The beginnings...

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