INTERVIEWS
for Stanley Barkan


Four entered into the orchard of mystical knowledge:
Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Aher and Rabbi Akiba...Ben
Azzai looked and died...Ben Zoma looked and was
affected mentally...Aher cut down the plants...
Rabbi Akiba departed in peace.
–-Talmud: Tractate, Hagigah 14b


This is where peace is shaped through declensions
of nothing: Eckhart´s nicht, Saint John of the Cross´s nada,
the Taoist wu, the Buddhist sunyata, and the Kabbalist´s

ayin. This is where peace is ghost-faint, sun-dark
and sequenced through pardes, the pomegranate orchard,
Edenic alias, where Akiba eyed the mystical shape

of the Godhead. The sacral grid emits the words of Akiba´s
vassals, generations later, and we hear the shibboleths,
idyllic as anyone who emerges unscathed from millennial

hysterics. This is where peace, then, is the colored strand
of yihudim–-the future primordia, unified, departing in peace,
which is the arrival, before a name occupies our attention.









Daniel Y. Harris is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Unio Mystica. He is a widely published poet, essayist and visual artist. His credits include Exquisite Corpse, In Posse Review, Mad Hatters´ Review, Sein und Werden, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Magazine.com, Convergence and The Other Voices International Project. He earns his living as Northwest Regional Director of Development for Canine Companions for Independence. His website is www.danielyharris.com.
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