Prayer to the Eternal One help me be aware that everything is now that time has neither beginning nor end that the forest of eternal awareness is all there is and when i am ready to die i will hold this forest in my hands outstretched to greet the light and into it will place my most essential my most essential essence of self for i do not fear in the omnipresent forest of awareness RIVERS IN PARADISE: JEWISH POETRY AND PROSE © 2019 BY HENRY RASOF 1 RIVERS IN PARADISE JEWISH POETRY AND PROSE A river flowed from Eden, split into more rivers, and watered the Garden. Genesis 2:10 RIVERS IN PARADISE: JEWISH POETRY AND PROSE © 2019 BY HENRY RASOF 2 RIVERS IN PARADISE JEWISH POETRY AND PROSE Henry Rasof Temescal Canyon Press Louisville, Colorado 2020 RIVERS IN PARADISE: JEWISH POETRY AND PROSE © 2019 BY HENRY RASOF 3 Copyright © 2020 by Henry Rasof All rights reserved. No part of this book my be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author or his representative. To obtain such permission, please write or email him and be sure to describe your project. Henry Rasof, Temescal Canyon Press 116 Monarch Street Louisville, CO 80027
[email protected] Other books by the author, all published by Temescal Canyon Press The House (2008) Chance Music: Prose Poems 1974 to 1982 (2012) Here I Seek You: Jewish Poems for Shabbat, Holy Days, and Everydays (2016) Souls in the Garden: Poems About Jewish Spain (2019) Web sites by the author henryrasof.com and medievalhebrewpoetry.org Almost all of the poetry and prose in this book also can be found on these web sites.