by Rick Black (Arlington, VA)
I shall want to know one day
why God made hurricanes and floods –
and rested on the seventh day.
I shall want to know one day
why God sent down famine and disease –
and rested on the seventh day.
I shall want to know one day
why God rested on the seventh day
but did not grant us any rest.
Rick Black is an award-winning book artist and poet. His artist books are represented in private and public collections, including the Library of Congress, Yale University and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A journalist for many years, Rick’s poetry collection, Star of David, won Poetica Magazine’s 2012 poetry chapbook contest for contemporary Jewish writing. A reading of Star of David was held in the Middle Eastern & African Division of the Library of Congress. He recently published a new collection, Two Seasons in Israel: A Selection of Peace and War Haiku.
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