A few days ago I posted a list of my top ten nonfiction posts from 2008: essays about prayer, Torah, my time in Israel and the West Bank, midrash. Here's the companion list I promised: links to my ten favorites among the poems that I posted here this year.

• Return (Shabbat mincha poem)

• Command (Tzav)

• Ten years in (anniversary poem)

• Sandals (Balak)

• Red heifer (Chukat)

• Not empty-handed (Re'eh)

• Accounting (Rosh Hashanah poem)

• Mobius (V'zot ha-brakha)

• Hineni (High Holiday musaf prayer)

• First step (Lech Lecha)

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