Each day that we live We die a little In the embers of night In the smoke of dreams At the end of each morning When the sun has stopped climbing The angels gather together To borrow its rays At dusk and at dawn With every stroke of the brush With each word each sentence every question mark And parenthesis And everytime I turn out the light And check to see That the black dog lies at my bedside Who watches and sits at the side of Michael the archangel Who sits at the side Of God Goodnight Rico Tomorrow is another day Chasing turkeys in the yard (Chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch mentions seven holy angels who watch, that often are considered the seven archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Saraqael, Raguel, and Remiel.) (Of course science in Rambam’s (Maimonides) time did not speak of DNA in the same way that we do, but his phrase “God has placed in the sperm a formative force shaping the limbs” reflects contemporary science as he understood it. He sees no contradiction between the languages of science and religion.) Provincetown, 2024/2025
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