The Sound of the Moon on the Ninth of Av

Day 311. Random Notes from my phone (before the Fast, but after the moonrise)

Reading time: About two minutes (it’s just a poem)

Ravens remember every face

of the Persians who burned it, leaving

a Wall facing West, for eternity.

Then, the forced March east, under the crepuscular light, and the decades in Babylon,

in the gardens.

At the end of Daniel’s Book:

No owl blinked when the Lord said: “Koresh Ro’i,” Xerxes, be my Shepherd.

It was …