Recognizing Elijah

 

 

We will know it by the grazing

of gazelle in Gaza

 

by un-obscured sunsets

and the syncopation

 

of millions of metronomes,

each marking its own mystery.

 

We will know it in Darfur

And Fallujah and in the sweet  fusion

 

of Okinawan dofu,

salted by the ocean,

 

or in a crown

of Brazilian mist.

 

When lion and lynx lie down with lambs

to lick wounds, in fields of azalea,

 

we will know it

 

Genii will sing us home,

hajji in bijou gilt burka will whirl us

 

from Ajijic to Beijing

Berlin to Beirut,

 

and we, in meandering queues

will just keep arriving.

 

                     ----------Rowena Silver

 

 

Rowena Silver is an editor of Epicenter Literary Magazine.  Her work has been widely published.

 

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