Letter, Be (Bateau Ivrit )
Aleph, any sound and none
in the beginning, there was B,
but A begat it all
Reverse the letter’s letters
and Aleph – one – becomes wonder:
Pehleh, which opens its mouth in awe
Peh, both letter and mouth
sound makes the mouth and the mouth makes sound
utterly abacadabresque
Leh, one sound apart from the heart, Lev
its L called Lamed, the longest letter
the middlemost, elevated at the heart of them all
Alter one sound of Lamed to learn: Lomed
to learn is to reach to/from the heart of it
so much longing at the heart of learning
But here we are all belonging
belettered, aloft
when one can wonder, one can be.
One can again begin.