uncommon unsense

the prophet helps
a widow
and
when the prophet needs
ravens helps with food


making up for that business
with the ark

all the people needed food
and so food
fell
needed water
too
which poured for them
from barren places

and so
wandering the wilderness
still cannot
be comfortable
but
at least keep folk alive
meanwhile
by
basics

David thinks he needs Bathsheba
though that is
another kind of interest
not
like food and water
whatever the king might feel
he needs

as he wants
food and
drink
from her

blind
needing sight
the lame to walk
the awful sick to have some healing
that
provides a reason

there are stories
too
of prodigals repenting and returning home
of
good Samaritans while
Samaritans are not credited
so much

of parents withholding stones from children
so that giving
bread
has fulsome space as
well as love

need
and response
and
I suppose when honest
still the answer might be
no
or no
for now

frustrating how the interactions
go
in our relationship with divine
whose terms are
to
keep the evidence
of such
unseen or
otherwise unsensed

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