Miriam at the River by Jane Yolen

Author:Jane Yolen [Yolen, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KAR-BEN PUBLISHING

Past a hippopotamus

wallowing in the small tide

of the basket’s passing.

The Nile’s water ripples,

then parts on either side of the basket.

Suddenly, in my mind,

I see another water parting:

fiercer, higher, a great wall of it.

What water is this? I wonder,

for it is surely not the Nile.

I could ask God for an answer,

though often God’s answers are not clear.

Father says prophecy is a cloudy glass,

a muddy river, a curtain pulled a bit aside.

But I ask God anyway.

Like a soft breeze,

that comforts in the middle

of an Egyptian summer,

God whispers in my ear,

“Your little brother is in my care

till he comes home.”

But where is home? I wonder.

Then, taking a deep breath,

I accept that answer,

leaving my brother to be rocked

in the river’s arms.

Then I whisk my footprints away

so there can be no blame.

Sometimes courage comes

from what you do,

sometimes from what you do not do.

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