Wayne-Daniel Berard  

 

Adam Moozar*

                                   
before the somnolent
kidnapping of body parts
there was Adam Kadmon
the Original One. Then,
projecting a
Dependant Personality Disorder
upon non-binary Eden,
the god who could not stand
to be alone chloroformed
this Original, and slicing like
an organ thief, dualized
what was One, damning
fluidity with the flick of a rib,
“closing up the flesh.”
until now.
“and thus a man
clings to his wife, that they
become one flesh.” Adam Kadmon
Adam Moozar, Queer Adam,
trans-appling,
originally asinning,
no need to cling
if Flesh is one already.
never less
alone than when Al-one.

*Moozar: Hebrew, “queer.”  

 

 

Wayne-Daniel Berard teaches English and Humanities at Nichols College in Dudley, MA.  An adoptee and former Franciscan seminarian, his birth-search led him to find and embrace his Jewishness.  Wayne-Daniel is a Peace Chaplain, an interfaith clergy person, and a member of B’nai Or of Boston. He is the co-founding editor of Soul-Lit, and has recently published a chapbook, Christine Day, Love Poems. He lives in Mansfield, MA with his wife, The Lovely Christine.