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Dead Sea Alive
by Maja Trochimczyk
On seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition
at San Diego’s Balboa Park, January 4, 2008
An archipelago of broken words
a mosaic of ill-fitting pieces
Torn ribbons with angelic voices
coded by crooked signs
Scholars decipher, assemble patterns
the dust of ages obscures the meaning
Here – “Blow your trumpets,
slay the guilty”
There – “He heals the badly wounded,
makes the dead live”
I see “YHWH” – four letters in an ancient script
I hear – “Halleluiah!”
After two thousand years,
two hundred days and two hours
I offer a sacrifice
of my mind to the eternal presence
The angels are here with us
hovering on iridescent wings
Just above red boxes with fire blankets
just beyond a row of glass screens
With miniature shreds
of holiness inside
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