A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Lech Lecha
As you go
on your journey,
I hope you will carry
the most essential
goods, words
of blessing, seeds
the wind offers.
And that each glittering
stone on your path,
(be it shard or treasure)
leads you
into a widening.
Do you seek a new name,
like Sarah and Abraham,
who reaped
breathy promises?
Dawn stirs
like ripening fruit
over distant hills.
They wake into focus,
inviting your touch,
your reach.
Cathleen Cohen
Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A poet, painter and teacher, she created the We the Poets program for children. Her poems appear in journals such as Apiary, Baltimore Review, One Art Journal, Poetica, and elsewhere. She authored Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press, 2017), Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press, 2021), and Sparks and Disperses (Cornerstone Press, 2021). Her artwork is on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery and www.cathleencohenart.com.
