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There is, of course, the
language of visual art.

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And this one is after
a painting by Chagall.

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It's called "Deliverance."

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What kind of Moses
would arrive in the form

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of a rooster tall enough to
brush his comb along the door

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jamb?

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His arched back a feathered
saddle, iridescent.

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One roll of his red eye
and this unrepentant woman

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mounts up, clings to
wattle and tendon.

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Leans her ear to his beak to
catch each triangular syllable,

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tremulous as dawn.

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Her doubts burrow
deep into down.

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She strokes veins at
the base of his throat.

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Feels the faint tick of
faith just out of reach.

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The silty creek of her mind
cannot yet float that rowboat

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where some tiny god's giving
one of the chosen a free ride

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to the other side."

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