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“Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent a message through his disciples and asked him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:2-3, CSB)
So this is how it is, and is to be.
You’ve said so much of sparrows. I was watching for the ravens, for the scraps of bread and carrion. I have walked on less, through deserts, looking for you.
I was steadied for the rains. Think of me your scorch-tree, your lightning rod.
Are you the coming one?
Surely he would not dismantle his beloved: peeled and coarsened as by fire, as by four hundred years. I have seen the bones of ravens in collapse, by little fox-dens. I have waited for your loan of wings, disused, to clear my way.
It was not meant for this, this voice you tended in Zarephath: even then with oils, you softened it, that it might go before you, that it might pick the way, where only locusts venture, where the ravens soothe their prey.
I was not an ornament—you saw that I had all the gift of clamor, I had nothing of the grace to relieve lilies, torn and withering, to console each used-up songbird that, sinking, stains the causeway.
So this is how it is: when will it be that you urge attendant powers, that you admonish all your whirlwinds, and send a coach of ravens here, for me?
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