Stan Mack is a journalist and cartoonist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Providence. His comic Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies ran in the Village Voice for twenty years. Formerly the art director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack is the author of several young adult nonfiction books and children’s picture books.
“Why did God reveal the account of Creation to Israel? Because they said ‘We will do’ before ‘and we will understand’ (Exod. 24:7).”
This may be understood in the light of…
Father, adonoi, author of all things
of the three states,
the soft light on the barn at dawn,
a wind that sings
in the bracken, fire in iron gates,
the ram’s horn,
Furnisher, hinger of…