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Since she died,
\n<\/span>my mistress Sarah\u2019s tent stands empty,
\n<\/span>like a clay pitcher
\n<\/span>that once held sweet wine.<\/span><\/p>\n

A hollow darkness clouds my master\u2019s eyes
\n<\/span>which once burned with awesome light.
\n<\/span>In his melancholy, he sets a mission in my hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I have traveled the world with him
\n<\/span>and helped him throughout the years
\n<\/span>my stomach plummets at my lone task.
\n<\/span>I never knew when I tended to the tents and flocks
\n<\/span>as we crossed the land of Canaan
\n<\/span>that I would be the one to find his son a wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

On reaching the town of Nahor,
\n<\/span>no sooner do the words of my prayers
\n<\/span>leave my lips, a young girl approaches,
\n<\/span>bleating sheep at her heels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her skin is as smooth as Damascus silk,
\n<\/span>and in her eyes a deep, ancient wisdom.
\n<\/span>Graceful as a young gazelle, she runs
\n<\/span>to tell her family to prepare a place for me to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their tent, I lean on soft, crimson cushions,
\n<\/span>drink brewed herbs from an embossed bronze cup
\n<\/span>and in the shafts of sunlight
\n<\/span>I study my hosts\u2019 faces.<\/span><\/p>\n

The father, Bethuel, gray peppering his hair,
\n<\/span>his eyes focused on my gifts,
\n<\/span>fondles a speckled kid\u2019s ears
\n<\/span>as it lies at his feet, nibbling straw;
\n<\/span>her brother, Laban, narrow-eyed,
\n<\/span>sprawls across a mattress
\n<\/span>on a sheepskin rug that covers the earth floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

How I managed, I do not know,
\n<\/span>but gently persuade the family
\n<\/span>to permit Rebecca to come with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

On our journey home, we approach a field
\n<\/span>and see my master\u2019s son deep in prayer;
\n<\/span>Rebecca falls off her camel, pulls her veil across her face.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac brings Rebecca to his mother\u2019s tent,
\n<\/span>which, like a clay pitcher,
\n<\/span>refills with sweet wine.<\/span><\/p>\n

from: Leaving the Garden,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Published 2018
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