Blood Moon

Passover Moon's

****** hue

eclipses

the ordinary

in veils of

miraculousness

obscure

rouge

halos

illume

elliptical arcs

guiding

footsteps in

a righteous

exodus

across

troubling

waters

forsaking

hovels

with

painted

doorjambs

dripping

lambs blood

Mezuzahs

bleat

memories

holy

murmurs

bespeaking

lamentations

of ancient

hosannas

our

desperate

supplications

flesh out a

distressed

humanity

seeking

deliverance

from the

vengeance

is mine

Elohim

may it

be nigh

we wait

watching for

an always faithful

Good Deliverer

to honor the

covenant

to lift

despair

with a

liberating

yoke

lugging

leaden

burdens

Oh Holy

of

Holies

banished

in the wisp

of a bitter herb

our

distended

bellies

fill with

unleavened

grace

sweet

droplets

of manna

consumed

with extreme

gratitude

arriving

at journeys

end to

promised

lands

fully

satiated

and free

to rest in

sanctuaries

of radical

hospitality

luxuriating

in an infinite

abundance

for all

sojourners

Selah

Music Selection:

Big Mama Thornton

Go Down Moses

Oakland

4/15/14

jbm

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