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Tevet

Seven is completion.


Chanukah lights where


Eight sends us beyond


This world,


Casting illuminated gaze


Toward the vision


Contained within


The silence of


Ayin.



I do not always know


When I should be quiet.



And the loudest I am


Is when I am angry,


Or, sometimes, when I pray,


Or, yes, here, too:


In the deepest vulnerability of all;


A poem.



Jacob teaches,