The Old Pastor and the Rabbi

THE WORD DERIVED FROM THE HEBREW
HEI LAMED-KEF, MEANING TO GO, TO WALK

The old pastor poems.
That would be one way to look at it now.
The way he handed me his library
one book at a time. Those prophets
make sense to me, I understand them,
I said to him, and he handed me
Volumes I and II, by Abraham Heschel.
Was the cover blue, a dark blue
in that traditional cloth binding
of the early 60s? Walking
across Edmund Pettis Bridge
the Rabbi felt his legs were praying.

Jim Bodeen
28 October 2017

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