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Thursday, April 21, 2016

To Freedom's Sweet Vintage

My cousin Susan asked me to write a poem for her that she can read at Seder tomorrow night.  She's celebrating with extended family who have their own unique tradition (thanks to the initiative of Joe Fisher) of incorporating poetry into the Haggadah service - it seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up, at least for a poet like me, who is always eager for a chance to swim upstream to mingle with some actual liturgical verse.


(as you can see for yourself
a poem is no less a vessel 
than a Kiddush Cup)

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