Site-specific installation at Congregation Magen David of Manhattan.
Windows 1-6, backlit printed glass, 60" x 24" (152.4 x 60.96 cm) ea.
Windows 7-12, backlit printed glass, 60" x 24" (152.4 x 60.96 cm) ea.
Rueben (259)
The firstborn cried
in carnelian, red streaked
and crowned with prophecy
before his hot tears couldblind him: See, a son.
Bloodred and breathing.
Pulled into the world
like a fistfull of mangroves,
his depths masked with a surfaceof garden: flowering just above
where his roots clenched, cool
as dark soil and crucial. Groundwater.
Heir to the seeds of belief, grown up
on the same vine his father once planted.
His legacy is gemmed the way pressure
will burst open a stone to its own star.
poetry by Sasha Leshner