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Yehiel E. Poupko
Yehiel E. Poupko is rabbinic scholar at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
last witness*
you were there
tell me please
if you don’t mind
if it is no intrusion
upon what graced
their last gaze
the floor
a chair
the ceiling...
February 21, 2023
Farewell to Christendom
we are a people
without bodies
our feet
no longer
walk your lands
our hands
turn no pages
in the ancient book
like our selves
now burned...
September 30, 2022
white table man
white table
stretched reaching
as far
as the eye
can see
grain fields
at the other end
or is it
the head
an hour glass
table man’s...
June 30, 2022
The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
May 17, 2022
As the shadows grow
After that first
let there be
shadows sprouted
like grass
gathering waters
to flood
darkness grows
let there be
its light
shadows rolling...
September 24, 2021
Memo to a Christian friend
you seem
you really
do seem
so interested
in suffering
thoughtful
and purposeful
pain sorrow
wounds
of hands
feet
and heart...
August 19, 2021
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To the ghettoes
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Sara, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel...
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