candyhearts

exegesis the first thing you forget, in grief, is how far horev is from egypt. lovelorn in the fell of leviticus, there’s a heifer in a valley, no fault nor ...

cyclical i’m hit in moonlight / like a gong, like the midnight / eyes of nazareth. that’s the verse. once in one thousand years, God lifts men from the nile, ...

4/5. nephesh there’s this man, long hair, lifted right from the valley of nevo. the rite calls for ripe flesh of lemon, of cucumber, of leek; oil on chest, tonic ...

Easter i'll not go from the crypt; on this Easter morning, i'm remaining. i left Him here, nazareth's child. oil, fig leaves, cinnamon, on His flesh, His neck, His thighs. ...

3/5. crucifixion ēlî ’ēlî lāmāh ‘ăzavtānî. the child of nazareth recites verses He knows, verses His mother recited, too, once. the closure of things in the opening of the cut ...

Moses kills a man, buries him haphazardly in the dirt. then, when God meets Moses for the first time, he has Moses take off his shoes. burrow yourself into what ...

2/5. sinai God, more than anything, is steadfast, and i am dutiful. He is the language i attach to Him, the language my grandma attached to Him. and He is ...

1.5/5. paragraph (there are no breaks in hebrew text, no punctuation). words break off in bodies as prophets swallow amniotic scrolls, organs become ellipses as the presence of נֶפֶשׁ makes ...

1/5. dekálogos Hashem fingers ten phrases into stone, passes them to Moses. Hashem then tells Moses new phrases, similar but not the same. you shall be foreign, you shall not ...

Me me me!!

𒀭 index: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. a sumerian logogram tacked to names to indicate closeness to Heaven.

'if i eat the fruit, i'll die,' eve tells him. 'not death death,' he says (gen 3:4). לא מות תמתון. not death death. he repeats himself, as if to say, ...

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