..., colorful, flapping like cards. My love is not Jewish, she’s an urban girl, from the city of Tel Aviv, giggling a pleasant and liberating laugh. I’m an inhibited village boy, and as I hover, the stammering and blushing poems have completely disappeared, my voice is eloquent. We kiss. Quickly...

... hold the dew before nightfall, the cloud before rain; Kiss us as we wish a lover to kiss us, without forethought or purpose. Light into the treetops, tear the resistant leaves away; Measure us, who crush them to mulch, by our own season. Not as entire emptiness, but emptiness dreaming of form...

... and everything’s a space ship. And what about the future of the soft machine? Señor gets tired. Señor leaks from his gaskets, needs new bearings and shocks, beauty is killing him. Señor stays awake all night as the wind throws its language against the window like a blind bird body. A kiss should be like...

.... It’s not letting hyenas teach babies to howl. It’s families trusting without cactus spines coming from inside our skins. No more sand blowing between kisses. In a promised land we are not made in the desert’s image. We do not think with rocks in our heads or take counsel with storms. A promised...

... there. I graze on fables: thou-shalt-nots passed on by deer-talk, that has the sound of our long wet kisses— buck to doe to fawn, nose to nose. I hear commandments sent by antlers scraping trees, received like the color of eyes. Nazi and Stalinist barbed wire words send me up a hill to graze. I...

...   life, face no longer fresh   but a peach sweet even   as skin loosens from flesh flesh   from pit those little wrinkles you can make   with a thumb-press kissing the outer   orbit of your eyes the longer lines   charted down crescent cheeks   your jaw relaxed lips parted neat   compact...

... raged, takes up a stick and “b eat[s] him until he [is] too w'eak to utter a cry.” W hen the father is done, he holds out his hand for his son to kiss. ASKTHEAUTHOR! From here...

... at this games company. It was my longest job, like a year. I decided I would put a bunch of kissing boys in this video game because I wanted (continued on page 78) 16 TIKKUN WWW.TIKKUN.ORG NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009...

... the so was dowager, and who / beloved, the of Jerusalem letters divided beautiful the of photos the burning “They’re now sixty Israel’s lips.”my to honey than “sweeter as savor and earth stones” your your cherish and “kiss dust,” to your with my tears mix to only...

..., break through to my consciousness. When other boys were becoming enraptured by girls, I found my rapture in learning Torah. I was thrilled by the sprawling rabbinic arguments, the imaginative plays on words, and the demand for meaning everywhere. Negiah , the prohibition to embrace, kiss, or even...

... is a lyrical examination of the speaker’s childhood, defined by tenderness as well as by the sharp edges of an urban setting. “My first lessons were kisses and a hammer. / I was fed with mother’s milk and rat poison. / I learned to walk on a tightrope over a pit / where snakes’ warnings were my rattles...

... to be intimate with this world so that all life can participate in the love that God is and that sustains the universe. It all begins in a garden where God is presented as the Essential Gardener who holds soil so close as to kiss it and breathe into it the life that creates people, plants, and animals. The first...

... wandered off alone into the red light district of Algiers. An auburn-haired, tattooed lady smelling of flowers and sweat kissed me for nothing behind a beaded curtain. She touched a naked breast to my lips.” “We die misinformed with our mouths of shell open.” “We die misinformed with our mouths...

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... Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel. mates are more likely to engage in recon­ of forgiveness in dreadful flare-ups like (Seal Press, 2006). ciliation activities like hugging, kissing, the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza...

... with abandon. A man touches a stranger with his tallit (prayer shawl) and kisses it as if the stranger were a Torah scroll, saturated with God’s presence. Many of our religious traditions teach that God is most present or even only present in relationship or in community, hence the minyan (prayer...

... (Seal Press, 2006). ciliation activities like hugging, kissing, the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza, and grooming after a conflict than before. with its attendant nearly 1,500 deaths...

... il’allah. There is no god but god. Ein atar penui minei. There is no place empty of Presence. Evening prayer comes to a conclusion, as does our two-week journey to Iran. I stand and kiss...

... our party we can love who we want We can kiss who we want We can sing what we want At the MTV Video Music Awards last summer, Miley Cyrus illustrated the point and conspicuously professed her freedom: she sang that song while gyrating, emaciated, and almost naked, pretending to masturbate on stage...

.... What is the chemical composition of oxytocin and where is it secreted? What happens if you compare the brain activity of a person kissing to one of that same person only fantasizing about the act? We may not realize it, but students are already studying love all the time through literature, from...