Reading Scipture

        Another manuscript and another manuscript,

        Enwrapped, entwined, and coupled together –

        Letters in love with letters.

                A. Leyeles

Page after page, 

a story of ancestors, 

of jealousy between brothers,

of wandering in a barren space,

of complaints and bickering,

of heroes and wise women

who heard God’s voice,

of prophets who raged

against the ease 

of sliding into idol worship

Page after page

we find ourselves--

led to a river,

in the crowd,

being fed,

mourning,

rejoicing,

Book after book of Words

and spirit and the Aleph

of God’s breath