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“Command the Children of Israel and say unto them, ‘When you come unto the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall unto you as an inheritance \u2026” (Numbers 34:2)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Sometimes \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is my older sister.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We share a room<\/span>
\n<\/span>Divided by a curtain,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Which she pushes aside<\/span>
\n<\/span>When she wants to show me<\/span>
\n<\/span>Her collection of seashells;<\/span>
\n<\/span>And I give her all my marbles,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Even the crystal blue.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We talk and talk<\/span>
\n<\/span>Until she falls asleep. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Sometimes \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is my mother,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dressed in a thick quilted night-robe,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Shutting off the lights<\/span>
\n<\/span>And closing my bedroom windows<\/span>
\n<\/span>To lock out winter winds.<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Good night,”<\/span>
\n<\/span>She tells me softly, “Pleasant dreams.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>After kissing my forehead,<\/span>
\n<\/span>She goes to her room<\/span>
\n<\/span>And reads in her armchair<\/span>
\n<\/span>Until she falls asleep. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Sometimes \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is a little girl<\/span>
\n<\/span>In pink and white flannel pajamas.<\/span>
\n<\/span>My daughter calls out to me from her bedroom<\/span>
\n<\/span>To bring her a cup of warm chocolate.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I sit by her in the dark,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Reciting story after story,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Until she falls asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Sometimes \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is my wife,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Who in the quiet of the night<\/span>
\n<\/span>Stretches out her arms,<\/span>
\n<\/span>And whispers without words,<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Come.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>She strokes my cheeks, my eyes.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We share a bed<\/span>
\n<\/span>Of intimacy;<\/span>
\n<\/span>In the quiet of the night<\/span>
\n<\/span>We do not sleep. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Sometimes \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is more than sister, mother,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Daughter,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Wife.<\/span>
\n<\/span>She is the pomegranate<\/span>
\n<\/span>Before it buds;<\/span>
\n<\/span>The wheat and barley<\/span>
\n<\/span>Murmuring to each other in neighboring fields;<\/span>
\n<\/span>The vine and fig tree<\/span>
\n<\/span>Bathed in night\u2019s waters;<\/span>
\n<\/span>The date palm in the oasis beseeching clouds,<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Bring more water, more water;”<\/span>
\n<\/span>The olive tree on the hillside<\/span>
\n<\/span>After all its olives ripen. <\/span><\/p>\n

I close my eyes; I see<\/span>
\n<\/span>And hear, I smell and taste,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I know:<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Land<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014 Always \u2014<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is a farm<\/span>
\n<\/span>Of family-fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

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