Make Man an Image

Make Man an Image
 
"Moses Maimonides, Samuel Ben Tibbon, 
                   Juda Ben Solomon Choen
were philosophers influenced by Ibn Rushd"
 
This voice: like bells
bells like flowers     petals
like soft keys played
 
in some concerto not
written for them
but somehow just them
 
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Some say God inscribed nothing for Moses,
that He sent Moses away because men
had molded a golden calf, so Moses
 
shattered two blank slates to harrow men.
Back on Sinai, God dubbed Moses a sly
leader who could mold a noble lie
 
–recalling Joseph’s tact handling nobles
and his relatives, too –steadfast
against Pharaoh, Moses led until Nebo.
 
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 
because thou hast hid these things from the wise 
and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
 
out of the many heresies I could master
golden calves or bleeding wafers
comes imago dei     or my image     god image
 
tzelem Elohim
being made in the Image of God
theomorphism
 
an invented theme
–and God said: ‘Let us make man in our image’
an ontological argument
 
ancients did not separate
the physical from the spiritual
but that the form of god could inspire
 
form of man
the exstantiated non-spatio-temporal
form of man mimics god
 
that god could press his face into a lump of clay
or breathe himself into a molded thing
to make rather than create from scratch
 
to render an object from dull matter
to subjectify man differently from a prancing antelope
just this:  a tiny piece
 
that rings
like sunshine
like peals
 
of green glass tinkling
broken by skin
sent through a metal
 
wand
to air
the dreams where i live in other people's 
 
homes
with two cockatoo
in the barn
 
"Harari argues that storytelling 
is the human attribute that allows 
groups, society, and civilization to form."
 
man comes to fix tv
booth with atm & I forget my pin
people come home & man tries to hit me
 
they have baby
i had been watching Returned both French and US
領袖 has eliminated any and all distractions
 
supposed to be a good thing
when you see into past are you resident of one town?
            uprooted           mobile
 
you die without offspring and you end in churchyard
             but if your family moved to America 
nomadic but throughout world at large
 
wandering jew or roma or traveler
you encompass everywhere
looking backward like the angel of history 
 
you see wreckage where you imagine 
others might see heritage and look 
     forward to leaving a legacy
 
to look at youth but not be jealous 
    but to love them
to want to join them 
 
because that is the best of life
to desire again the beauty 
of what can be learned
 
because nothing is yet certain 
because now you
know that nothing will be 
 
           certain nothing is
even not nothing 
for youth     no death     no end
 
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                           pulled into a no-tell
in St Clair before I ran
off the road asleep & drunk
 
This voice: like bells
bells like flowers     petals
like soft keys played
 
in some concerto not
written for them
but somehow just them
 
out of the many heresies I could master
golden calves or bleeding wafers
comes imago dei     or my image     god image
 
tzelem Elohim
being made in the Image of God
theomorphism
 
an invented theme
and God said:  ‘Let us make man in our image’
an ontological argument
 
ancients did not separate
the physical from the spiritual
but that the form of god could inspire
 
form of man
the exstantiated non-spatio-temporal
form of man mimics god
 
that god could press his face into a lump of clay
or breathe himself into a molded thing
to make rather than create from scratch
 
to render an object from dull matter
to subjectify man differently from a prancing antelope
just this:  a tiny piece
 
that rings
like sunshine
like peals
 
of green glass tinkling
broken by skin
sent through a metal
 
wand
to air
to air

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