Ancient Jewish Burial Ground, Montjuic
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Space, time,
person... coordinates
of reality.
Kabbalah
Vast hillside view small openings hawk’s eye
shadows almost hidden within distant cypress
bough The uncaught breath exhaled
Gravestones lost as if windstorm
misplaced in memory’s crowded tomb Yet
mind
tracing back
centuries
pictures
them in shining shift
of grass
Montjuic
light Now
threaded
gaps Hebrew script
text and texture of lives inscribed
found
in later temples
Slivers
of
shimmering
meaning
an
acrostic prayer
uttered
across
the ages Breeze chants
soul
song of great
Barcelona’s Sephardim
Landscape bleached like grey Miro mirage
in nearby mueum Yet sun enough blue fringe
and words remain golden wisp of glance.
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