Towards a Progressive neo-Hasidism
Can a woman be hatched? Dispatched?
Catch a jet stream, catapult east?
Where would she perch? Where
would she wait for the rain
to stop? Would she give up, fly home,
like the raven returning to the ark?
I too am a wooden world, overrun
with stir-crazy, flapping animals,
the dirty tasks of feeding them,
cleaning them. Beneath the pressure
of the grey sky, the dove inside waits
for a sign.
Maya Bernstein
Maya Bernstein’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Amethyst Review, the Beloit Poetry Journal, On the Seawall, the Ekphrastic Review, Laurel Review, Lumina Journal, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Psaltery & Lyre, South Florida Poetry Journal, SWIMM Every Day, Vita Poetica, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, and her first collection is There Is No Place Without You (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022). Maya teaches leadership and facilitation.
