Every Generation
Every generation is a heel generation
every person a heel person
everything previous rests on us
every act every word every gesture
contributes inscrutably
to now —
this day.
We are the heel on which everything rests –
everything counts in some ultimate way
as hidden as the heel that supports
the weight of our bodies.
Everything turns on the lowly conjunction ekev
be a conjunction for a while
be a preposition
an article.
Be little
Be the
Nothing
That sustains.
jsg, usa
Small alef; poetry Ekev 1
Maqam Sigah trichord: E half-flat [3/4] F [1] G
Every Shabbat is associated with a musical figure, a maqam,
Arabic cognate to the Hebrew for “place.”