Picasso Bull and Matador
“…matador with bull a broken love affair in Picasso blue tone rings fire pan destined to cook shakshuka for breakfast so hungry the mouths unfed…”
Too Real to Think About
Alison Stone Too Real In myths, the would-be prey escapes by changing into tree or bird. The audience at the Israeli music festival was trapped in their human skin. A pair of lovers mutilated embracing, one teen stabbed with song still in her throat. The stars blink on […]
Stars and Petals
Michael E. Stone The little girl with a white wicker basket full of petals and sprinkles, that starry paints the heavens, her eyes sparkling jewels dewdrops at dawn unsullied still. She makes a milky way for the moon, the full, the royal moon, a queen. And you, to […]
‘Round Midnight
Poetry and Art after October 7, 2023 Devorah Roytenberg CharashCeramicist / Photographer Michael DickelPoet ‘Round Midnight I — No lullaby will do But it really gets bad ‘Round midnight* I tell everyone we’re safe because we are in our home, we have food, water, each other, the rockets […]
weeks after the massacre
Karen Alkalay-Gut 1. No one tells it yet Not the whole story How long would it take you to speak of your child wounded in the chest but still breathing when her arm is sliced off? Ah, how could you tell since this was the last sight you […]
Days of the Dead
Poem from Wombwell Rainbow Thanks to Paul Brookes, Curator, Editor, Publisher, Poet, for publishing this in Wombwell Rainbow on 29 October, 2023. This was written in response to a “On this Day” photo Paul posted on social media, so is ekphrastic. Michael Dickel 7 October–6 November, 2023 Leaves […]
Democracy
Note: If you’re viewing with a phone, I recommend landscape (sideways) for a better effect. Turn this page We smell the fish of state rotting from the Prime Minister. He says he desires to throw fists against the protestors who march for democracy; he falsely accuses them of […]
Remembering Rabbi Sim Glaser
for Sim Your mother survived the Shoah. You were born on my father’s birthday in the same year that I was born. This year, you left the world on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. The last time we saw each other— a Shabbat meal together here in Jerusalem […]
In Memoriam Michael Rothenberg
Originally posted on The BeZine:
Michael Rothenberg On Monday, 21 November 2022, at around 11 PM EST, Michael Rothenberg left the world. Even though I he had told me that he had cancer and I had recently heard that he went into hospice care, the news of his…
The BeZine Fall 2022
Volume 9 Social Justice Issue 3listening, learning, reaching out
In Memoriam, BeZine Contributor Ester Karen Aida
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In the Jewish tradition, our first words on hearing of the death of someone are usually Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet, Blessed is the True Judge. It reminds us that we may not know why, but our friend has been taken. We give up our…
Poetry: Aging Vessel by Michael Dickel
My latest poem on Fevers of the Mind, titled Aging Vessel.
Reading Bodies & Embodied Readings
Join us for a mind- & genre-b(l)ending evening of performances by Adeena Karasick, Guy Dolev, & Michael Dickel (w/MC: Lonnie Monka). June 06 2022, 20:15, Besarabia Bar, Jerusalem Doors will open at 20:15, and the performances promptly at 20:30. The event will be live-streamed via the Jerusalism FB […]
Poetry by Michael Dickel : Twelve Hours in Amsterdam
I have recently started as an invited “wolfpack contributor” on Fevers of the Mind. Read my poem Twelve Hours in Amsterdam, and more to come. Amsterdam Tulip Museum (scene of the crime— you’ll have to read the poem. ©2018 Michael Dickel
The BeZine — Spring 2022
Volume 9 sustainABILITY & Ukraine Peace Issue 1
The BeZine — Winter 2021
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Light, Silence, & Time
Light, Silence, & Time — Recent photographs and older writing by Michael Dickel related to light, silence, time, and more.
Layering Time—Armageddon NFTs
Layering Time—Armageddon NFTs
This is my first venture in selling NFTs of my digital art. I walked through the ruins (Tel) of the ancient Canaanite city of Megiddo, which the Greeks called Armageddon.
View the art that resulted…
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