Tzav and Tears

May the beauty of the Divine Presence/Shekinah be our grounding.  Psalm 90:17

 

a command

is heard as

if an inner call  -

always bring salt 

to your offerings

gathered from

sea and tears.

 

Fire  and smoke

full moon and night

beauty

the concealed the

revealed  

commands:

don’t just look

for what you 

already know.

We cannot stay

locked in the castle,

the castle is on fire.

Make of your

sea and tears

salt.  Too much

is burning.

 

The pillar of the righteous

balanced on the fin 

of the leviathan

inevitably

falls back

into primordial waters.

From there

we hear a call

a tzav knocking on egg, uniting

and dividing into

zygote  notochord, 

as on the 2nd 

day,

 lower waters separated 

from the upper 

and longing

was created

 

as was memory

of who we are

fish and wave,

a filling well,

a seed floating

in the river

altar and 

the smoke 

of our offerings

a return of sea 

to vast weeping

sky