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The Deronda Review a magazine of poetry and thought Vol. X No. 2 2024 ______________________________________________________________
Esther Lixenberg Bloch, Phoenix, collage on black canvas paper, 30.5 X 40.5, 2024
INTERCEPTIONS AND GRACES
The heavens are scratching themselves with dozens of interceptions Which burst like holiday fireworks I tell you don’t worry And am frightened by the fireball overhead Maybe Gog and Magog and the besieging enemy And the Nine-Second War of a different age And the Yud going into the Great Light in the heavens And the Light becomes air that divides between waters and waters
And I think in the black night When above me myriad points of light Over Kingdom and over the Female whose root is the will to receive And how it rules And how it mixes up all Creation The will to receive
The heavens are wounded with flashes of radiance and electricity And it is incumbent on us To rectify the will to receive To refine the root of our nature to attain devotion Above me are chariots, missiles, whistles, fragments Conflagration
In order to emanate the light of wisdom with kindnesses I stand before you with all my will and fears In order to emanate In order to emanate In order that he may appear That he may save In order that he may calm That he may calm --Chana Kremer ________________ In This Issue:
Roberta Chester Batsheva Wiesner Katharine Gregg Marian K. Shapiro L. Ward Abel Rikki Santer Hamutal Bar-Yosef John Grey Varda Branfman Susan Oleferuk Brenda Appelbaum-Golani Reizel Polak Dawn McCormack David B. Weiser Don Kristt
Danila Botha Julian Alper Dawn McCormack Araleh Admanit Haggai Kamrat Omer Berkman Hamutal Bar-Yosef Yehudit Solomon Larry Lefkowitz Eli Ben-Joseph Anne Hall Levine Don Kristt Mindy Aber Barad David B. Weiser Ruth Netzer Balfour Hakak
III. The Dream of Life P.C. Scheponik Marian K. Shapiro Doug Stoiber Rowan Tate Hamutal Bar-Yosef Lois Greene Stone Charlie Langfur Mark Mitchell Paul Hostovsky John Delaney Mel Goldberg Esther Cameron Susan Oleferuk Jean Varda Jane Blanchard Marjorie Sadin Esther Malka Fein Hayim Abramson Tziporah Faiga Lifshitz
IV. Earth's Light Amichai Chasson Paul Hostovsky Marian K. Shapiro Katharine Gregg Allison Whittenberg Florence Weinberger Nolo Segundo Gunilla Theander Kester Donald Mender Amos Neufeld Dan Albo
V. Flights Reizel Polak Katharine Gregg Paula Goldman DB Jonas Araleh Admanit Oded Mizrachi Amichai Chasson Chana Kremer Ashby Neterer Elhanan Ben-Avraham Herzl Hakak
VI. Abba Yakov Azriel
VII. Will James B. Nicola Amos Neufeld Vera Schwarcz Hamutal Bar-Yosef Imri Perel Reizel Polak Faiga Tziporah Lifshitz Andrew Oram Esther Cameron
VIII. 3 Words from Weiser David B. Weiser ________________
SONG
There’s one who builds and one who tears down There’s one who uproots and one who sows There’s one who flees and there’s one who stays There’s one who abandons and one who cares There’s one who calms down and one who gets mad There’s one who takes care and one who stomps There’s one who angers and one who makes peace There’s one who discards and one who gathers There’s one who talks and there’s one who acts There’s one who plants and one who uproots There’s one who neglects and one who preserves There’s one who acts and there’s one who brags There’s one who is grateful and one who complains There’s one who’s awake and one who’s asleep There’s one who waters and one who burns There’s one who holds on and one who gets tired There’s one who writes and one who erases There’s one who cooks and one who spits out There’s one who screams and one who is silent There’s one who loves and one who hates There’s one who tears down and one who builds. Hamutal Bar-Yosef (tr. EC) _______________________
THE DERONDA REVIEW: Editor:
Esther Cameron., derondareview at g mail. Co-editor: Mindy Aber Barad, POB
6709, Efrat. Since its inception as The Neovictorian/Cochlea in 1996, The Deronda Review has included a Contributors' Exchange of available books and URLs. Contributors' Exchange is now a separate .html file, and includes contributors from vol. 5 no. 1 on. |
