Writing Down the Old Songs

What I am discovering is that this event – this burning, humbling, confusing, awful massacre and looming war – binds me to shirah, to poetry. Do you feel the shift, as well – where the constraints of narrative no longer suffice? Our minds and souls yearn to inhabit the wider spaces that poetry’s breadth opens for us. We are each one of us becoming poets, and so we are drawn to the transcendent voice of Torah’s shirah.