Michael Dekel Performs at the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam

For more from this event, please see Sine Grubert’s performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGcKQ8_KOk
At Tmol Shilshom, Michael Deckel discusses the human relationship with God and how we want a connection but cannot have one without striving to create meaning in the world. From his original poem “Somewhere, a whirring fan”:
And I never existed because I
don’t stop dreaming. Poetry, like
a god, provides code for an image,
keying it to suggest a revelation-lode
from your past. You want it to be
my past. The parrots’ screech.
A crow calls. A beautiful Other
by the window waits. This all
happens to you while I write,

these scenes tangled in dreams,
whirring fans—the poem unable
to light any form, your reading,
this page; unable to discover more
than bare wisps of meaning in the
vibrations of words—your song longing
for someone in the infinite void. Wanting
a mortal to read you into this, to see you
alive, you seek a new beginning—genesis.