poetry: she saw that he was good

Illustration of the Mediterranean Sea, Lake Nasser, Red Sea, Nile River, and other major major tributaries of the Nile River Basin.

The following poem was originally a homework assignment submission for my Rabbi and the other participants in our Torah study group. The assignment was to “Re-write the story of Exodus 1-10” or write anything inspired by Rabbi Lucía’s source sheet.

the wisdom of the river and reeds

knows alluvium, sandstone

seeds for soils cradling beloved bulrushes 

from the white nile headwaters to the mediterranean sea

where before the flow fell

stones rose,

the deserts knew no blood shed

only our eroding body of earth

before the basket 

fragments 

still, the waters know a life when she feels them

the wisdom of the river and seeds 

know a tender bloom from strange fire,

from a rain that drowns 

though, still, she breathes life into the routes

where before the flow fell

the fires below the surface

broke new grounds 

like sapphire before the calf of gold

at the mountain 

where he stood

as a child from the river

to the parted sea

of reeds

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