Annunciation
Poet: Marie Howe
Even if I don’t see it again — nor ever feel it
I know it is — and that if once it hailed me
it ever does–
And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction
not as toward a place,
God Pursues Me Everywhere
Poet: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
God pursues me everywhere,
Enmeshes me in glances,
And blinds my sightless back like flaming sun.
God, like a forest dense, pursues me.
My lips are ever tender,
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