The new year comes and goes.
The knot pulses dimly in my back.
Warm for October,
asleep for most of the fast.
Shirtless in the kitchen to present one final appeal.
Bite my palm to draw blood,
grind the enamel down to the gum.
The irreverence of my thoughts,
the maze of my biology,
ugly in behavior,
damp and gray around the bone.
Kol Nidre,
here before you in uncertainty.
Stoned through the week just to collapse into the next,
praying gently in traffic,
propelled forward only by necessity.
Ashamnu,
far too much to remember.
22 and witless with assumption.
I require more of myself.
Beloved is man,
the image I reflect.
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