With Rosh Hashannah gone and Yom Kippur just upon us, I keep wanting to take stock of the last year. So much has happened. The Gipper and that whole saga, all the new friends I've made, re-entering the dating world with a fresh new perspective. Perhaps tomrrow I'll be able to get more down (on paper), but in the meantime I wanted to share this snippet from Lilith Magazine: Shema Yisroel. In it Rabbi Susan Schur references a line from a poem by Denise Levertov, "Marriage." I googled it, and her, and there are apparently two poems, "The Marriage," and "The Marriage II." I thknk I just fell in love with these poems, the first especially and with Denise Levertov, even more than Pablo Neruda.
The Marriage
You have my
attention: which is
a tenderness, beyond
what I may say. And I have
your constancy to
something beyond myself.
The force
of your commitment charges us--we live
in the sweep of it, taking courage
one from the other.
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The Marriage (II)
I want to speak to you.
To whom else should I speak?
It is you who make
a world to speak of.
In your warmth the
fruits ripen--all the
apples and pears that grow
on the south wall of my
head. If you listen
it rains for them, then
they drink. If you
speak in response
the seeds
jump into the ground.
Speak or be silent: your silence
will speak to me.
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