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A Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice
And so the gods of lead and brass, The idols and their thrones, The teraphim made of fibreglass The mummified skulls and bones, Are...

Richard Mather


Lifting Up of the Hands
By lamp and by oil, we hunger the hours as the dusk's frost sets in. There is time: The trucks to Treblinka are not ready yet and...

Richard Mather


Makom
Prayer hall inside the Grand Choral Synagogue It is It is a place, It is a place, Makom, It is a place, Makom, where animal and man,...

Richard Mather


A Beginning
A Beginning I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael: It is Yahuweh Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh, who brings...

Richard Mather


When He Planted in the Earth
When He planted in the earth a tree of life, a tree of death (the latter with a curse of woe) did God say that this was good? And when He...

Richard Mather


Yehudah, I Make You Mine
Yehudah, I Make You Mine From out of the banks of the muddy Jordan River, I make you Mine. Into shape I press the grit, into shape I...

Richard Mather


Zechariah
The brickwork is broken, Gardens are in disarray, The iron gates swing free from their hinges, Rain sings in the gutters &...

Richard Mather


Tree, 1943
My roots are split & my bone-bare branches brittle. I degenerate in a cruciformed landscape. There are many like me. Perhaps it’s a sign...

Richard Mather


Promise to Abraham
Abraham, it is time to leave your lonely tent. Find a vacant spot in the belly of your heart and learn to fear the Lord. Stop seeking the...

Richard Mather


Pictures of Eve
I Adam cultivated Eve by swelling her belly with something so potent that it could only have come from the stone of a forbidden fruit. II...

Richard Mather


Microcosm
בְּרֵאשִׁית was the command 10 PRINT "Hello Universe" 20 GOTO 10 Unbelievable, breathless, demonic even, how a singular point could yield...

Richard Mather


Letter to Iyov
Before I had to chance to complete my creation I was cast down by the rebel angels and made to...

Richard Mather


Lamech’s Revelation
Lord, I have seen the inner workings of man and I am afraid. Poor and pathetic: he is corrupted from the start, living in a blasted...

Richard Mather


Image, Idol, Dream
Abraham prepared a table before me Even as I spoke harshly of the desert’s hot kisses. He moistened my head with oil. “You are safe,” he...

Richard Mather


Ba’al T’qiah (One Who Blows the Shofar)
A storm wind comes from the hidden north filling my mouth, my lungs, with dust ...

Richard Mather
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