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Lyric

Zohar Atkins

March 31, 2020

Every terror is an angle through which waiting for the universal proves vain is the new fruitful you said. I said how long must lyric prevent us from saying what needs no meaning. I said I am looking for an ending without words. You said here let me gift you. This endlessness is on me.

Zohar AtkinsTwitteris a rabbi, scholar, and poet, based in NYC. He is the author of Nineveh (Carcanet, 2019), Unframing Existence (Palgrave, 2018), and the Etz Hasadeh newsletter, a weekly Torah commentary.


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