I have a question for you,
to think about, to answer and to write down. It's this:
The dove left the protected Ark
and Jonah, left the harbor to go to Nineveh.
What do they have in common, in your opinion, apart from a name
a mission over water? Storms? And loneliness?
What’s your opinion of loneliness? Imagine them in their loneliness.
A myriad people in the rising water
and the children who reached the peak of Ararat
swollen with water?
And as for that man Jonah,
a person who regretted that an entire city was not destroyed
after you prophesied what he had to do…I’m sorry
I’ve answered your question with a question.
I’ve also gone from the abstract to the simple,
Perhaps plural-what can I do, I am that kind of Jew. – John Donne
Good questions are always better than good answers. It intimates a hungry, yearning mind.
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