The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme Book

	The art of blessing the day	3
	Snowflakes, my mother called them	9
	Putting the good things away	11
	Eat fruit	14
	Learning to read	16
	My mother's body	19
	On shabbat she dances in the candle flames	26
	The wicked stepmother	28
	The rabbi's granddaughter and the Christmas tree	31
	What she craved	33
	Unbuttoning	34
	Out of the rubbish	36
	Your father's fourth heart attack	39
	The aunt I wanted to be	41
	The flying Jew	43
	My rich uncle, whom I only met three times	46
	A candle in a glass	48
	Belly good	50
	The chuppah	55
	The wine	57
	House built of breath	59
	Nailing up the mezuzah	60
	In the grip of the solstice	62
	The real hearth	64
	All lovers have secret names	65
	Marriage in winter	66
	The ark of consequence	71
	To be of use	73
	Available light	75
	For she is a tree of life	78
	One bird, if there is only one, dies in the night	80
	Yahrtzeit	82
	After the wind abated, he walked out and died	83
	Woman in a shoe	85
	Up and out	87
	The task never completed	94
	Apple sauce for Eve	99
	The Book of Ruth and Naomi	101
	Fathers and sons	103
	At the well	104
	Growing up haunted	108
	The thief	110
	For each age, its amulet	112
	The Altneushul in the old Prague ghetto	113
	Returning to the cemetery in the old Prague ghetto	115
	The housing project at Drancy	118
	Black Mountain	120
	The fundamental truth	122
	The hunger moon	124
	Nishmat	129
	S'hema	132
	Meditation before reading Torah	134
	Amidah: On our feet we speak to you	135
	Kaddish	138
	Havdalah	139
	Shabbat moment	143
	At the New Moon: Rosh Hodesh	145
	Wellfleet shabbat	147
	The head of the year	148
	Tashlich	149
	Breadcrumbs	151
	The New Year of the Trees	153
	Beytzeh: Season of the egg	154
	Charoset	156
	Zeroah: Lamb shank	158
	Maror	159
	Karpas	161
	Chazeret: Lettuce in rebellion	163
	Matzoh	164
	Salt water	165
	Maggid	166
	Summer mourning	168
	Coming up on September	170
	The ram's horn sounding	172