Parashat Bereishit: The Open Loop (Songs from the Diaspora)
Songs From the Diaspora is a poetry blog focusing on the weekly Torah portion or other Jewish texts. This week, I consider some of the very first ideas presented in our portion; the notion of creation and a creator, as well as the idea of being created ourselves as we learn and read Torah.
Bereishit
In the first eye blink
the first letter
just forming as night
inked across day
the page, the pupil
Whether seen at five or fifty
That first creation-
a world summed in the lines of a single letter
an open loop
ever drawing,
the unknown before it
Declaring
this beginning is always
Beginning
the readers eye
Just now able to see
the light and dark of the page
the Weaver and the work
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