Edge

Each thought is a change of inner state,
as of clothing or metaphoric flesh
or even eventually of fate,
initially unknown that comes as flash

a superior sensation of ease
as mind revels in delicate balance
yet finds it poised at the edge of abyss
into which it fears it will throw itself

because it longs to be rid of itself,
angst anger it can’t accommodate in
soothing and smoothing imagination 
this rough unready it knows just to be

my song rises to inkling of its edge
its singing cuts as well as it repairs



https://www.amazon.com/Bag-Man-Other-Stories/dp/B0BL9V39JM

This is the link to my "The Bag Man And Other Stories" on Amazon,
ruminations on the complicated fabric of Jewish life in the New World
and in the Old World, full of peril and promise, terror and temptations.
Please try it, available both as print and as kindle book.  

(My apologies for this marketing effort.)