The Number of Names, Poems

Donald Levering introduces his work by referring to the mystical texts of the Kabbalah. "In it, we learn that God creates the world through numbers and letters, rearranging them in infinite combinations to make new things come into being. My anthropomorphic version of this is God wearing dark glasses fingering the accordion keyboard of primal letters and numbers, playing into existence a panoply of matter and energy forms.O