By Jacqueline Jules on March 18, 2010
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Manna in the Morning
Cook fires,
clothing scraps,
animal dung
have long disappeared
from the desert.
But the story remains:
how the Israelites
fled Pharoah
under a spiral
of swirling white clouds
as angels swept
stones and snakes
from their path.
For forty years,
Jews followed Moses
with manna-filled bellies,
thirst quenched by
a wondrous wandering well–
the same fountain I sipped
this candle-lit evening
with honeyed challah
and roasted chicken.
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Carrying dishes to the sink,
my sandaled feet skip
on a freshly swept floor,
free of snakes and stones.
Tonight, Pharoah lies drowned
behind me
and I am traveling to Canaan
under a sheltering white cloud,
certain of manna in the morning.
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Jacqueline Jules is an author and poet who writes for children and adults. Her books have been honored by the Sydney Taylor Award Committee and include The Hardest Word, Once Upon a Shabbos, Sarah Laughs, Benjamin and the Silver Goblet, and The Princess and the Ziz. Jacqueline won the Arlington Arts Moving Words Contest in 2007 and the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry in 2009. Her poems have appeared in more than 60 publications including the Christian Science Monitor, America, Jewish Spectator, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Sunstone, and Imitation Fruit. www.jacquelinejules.com
