May 25–31 ❘ Two Boats
Two Boats
One of gopherwood—
a cruise-ship-sized floating farm
lit by glowing tzohar—
cradled the sole, bone-weary family
left of Adam’s lonely line
through relentless days
and nights and days of flood.
Another—one barge of eight
sealed and pitched dish-tight
with molten Gazelem stones
in each peaked end—
sheltered a branch of kin
clipped from a tangled tree
through wind and watery deep.
Both boats were built
plank by plank with God’s help
to be temples of life-saving covenant
and inner light.
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