Small Alef poetry

Raise up your eyes
north south east west
look down
can you count the dust of the earth
so will be your seed.

The future –
more than we imagine
the present
a mess
but the future
will spread itself out

north south east west
we will get lost in vastness.

Maqam Bayat
Every portion has a characteristic maqam (plural maqamat),
musical figure, from the Arabic,
cognate in Hebrew Maqom – signifying Place