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The Book of
Genesis
And so…
Abram/Abraham
was way past the age
When he was able
to father a child, and
Sarai was way
past the age
When she was
able to bear a child.
(But Hagar the
concubine was nubile and young)
Yet (so the
story goes),
The Creator
intervened, appeared, and decreed
That something
on the level of a virgin birth
Would be, a
blessing and a curse:
Ishmael, born of
Hagar the concubine,
Isaac, born of
Sarai the wife—
Would both be
blessed with the strange curse
Of possessing
all the beautiful and ancient desert land.
Both born out of
due time and both born
In hostile land,
the arid and hostile desert
Not yet
transformed Into organic gardens
And so…
Claim against
claim,
These claims,
like a twisted helix,
Persist and
claim their rights
Against the
beautiful and ancient desert.
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