A BIRTHDAY HABDALA FOR BASIL BUNTING
wine in our mouths
the friend asks
“do they drink to get drunk
“or for a blessing only
I answer in the voice of
some old rabbi
was screaming in his cups
messiah
holiday
hallah
o mine double-flamed
candle in wine
mine fat moustached women
examines his fingernails’
shadows
where the prince of thumbs waits
& knows no blessing without madness
Jerome Rothenberg
Posted over on his site Poems & Poetics
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