Blue Lass

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Does she yet

In the tower

Await

For the draw

Of a knight

In the simmering

Light,

Or do blue

Evenings

Now pass

Inked by

No pining

Lass?

Over Arching

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Under azure sky the

Undulating arches

Sing

Of sun and shade

And time

Scooped in.

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Now in the antiquated, hollowed space,

Prayers no longer have to brace

Against an aged, leaded grace.

Even as wall and ceiling hold

Cold memories of gilded old

And toil of many, still untold,

Awed orison can freely rise

Released from threat of long demise,

Through open air into the skies.