Another gem from the Knopf-Borzoi daily poetry series

Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 17:45

 

Another gem from the Knopf-Borzoi daily poetry series:

These words from Franz Wright's "Dead Seagull"  look like a prayer to me on this Friday morning heading toward Shabbat and just about 3 weeks in to the omer's journey toward Sinai:

 

For a moment

only, stay with me, mystery. Before you change completely into

something other, slow cloud, entrance, spell, not yet remembered

name, stay; tell me what you mean.

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