1.Alpha Box?
Part of Friday ritual
After Shabbat dinner
But before their bedtime
Both grandchildren swarm
Upstairs to read what each picks.
Five-year-old won’t deign to
An arduous process sounding
More words, however invents
Own very clever Oz phrase
Kansas’s insect tornado…
Looks like Gerry’s now
Been tasked by youngest
Daughter to ramp up her elder
Son’s book-learning plus interest
Which have come toward the fore
Since dear Liavy will begin
New kindergarten this year’s
Fast-approaching autumn.
Factoid: fearless boychick
Um is so oy stunningly
Bilingual (Hebrew
– He gabs while plays
Effortlessly with pre-school’s
Israeli/ parented kids) —- that
Does not much seem to influence
Or allay his Mommy’s
Concern, thus it falls
Into Coachie’s
Domain to try
To inculcate
But not make
“Federal case”
Out of project
Boxing him in
Feeling ashamed
Since my smug mug
Admittedly does identify
With our little guy as perhaps
Another sorta sparkplug potential
Type A-ish kinda maybe star. Ughh!
2.L’Shana Tova*
Sunday morning
my usual weekend
morning’s FaceTime
with Davis CA grandkids
Evan Wilder counts 1 to 12
while munches more than that
sum of seeds from pomegranate
symbolizing not only obvious fertility
but which is also a Rosh Hashanah symbol
in the tradition of Kabbalah recounting there are
exactly 613 germs in each pomegranate equaling precise
mitzvot amounts God commanded then written in Talmud.
When tow-head Evie turned to many-colored water painting
older bro Benjamin Blaze Sarnat got dressed for initial session
at Hebrew school. Though don’t give one wit about observances
as such, I do know it will be much appreciated by Bubbe–brought
up Orthodox whereas Gerry’s parents—–> I were hard-core atheists.
Plus cherry right on top, their kindergarten-first-cousin bilingual Liavy
whose Abba is Israeli, has just been recruited to help teach mother tongue
to other students – and I suspect his up ‘n backs with Benji’ll eventually be
more important than classroom learning in developing practical language skills!
*Happy New Year
3: Boychicks
Of my Israeli
Son-in-law so
Guilt-ridden for
Leaving his fam
Of origin to settle
In way vaster USA
Has trained both boys
To be oy bilingual which
May possibly turn out like
Some secret decoder rings
They can use to communicate
When do not want me to listen.