CROSSROADS

from SEEDING THE TREE by Rebekka Goldsmith

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"If one sees two women sitting at a crossroads, facing one another, they are engaged in witchcraft." -Talmud

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We have been sitting at a crossroads:
the place where text
meets hurt.
The breezes bring us
characters, stories, silence.
We catch and discuss, dissect,
sew phrases together
with hairs from our own heads,
release the words,
let them float off down the road.
In the evenings, we work parchment through our hands,
making it soft and pliable.

If travelers come by, they pass quickly.
It is not true, mostly, that we eat souls,
but sometimes
we steal someone's complacency
and now and again we do turn someone
into something else.
We are a conspiracy of gardeners.
We seed ourselves
in the Torah like a fungus,
spreading up and down the tree of life
in fat shelves. Slowly, painfully,
using the microbes of our own bodies,
we are turning her into mulch.
At the place where the two roads meet,
a heap of anger, like dung.
Tourists step over it,
but we will be here when the dung is soil,
and the song runs clear and light,
and a living tree grows between us
at the crossroads.

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from SEEDING THE TREE, released November 17, 2020
Poem by: Rabbi Jill Hammer
Song Written and arranged by: Rebekka Goldsmith

Lead vocals: Rebekka Goldsmith and Gayanne Geurin
Violin: Alisa Rose
Piano: Julie Wolf

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