Avraham’s Teshuvah

 

Long after

Sara begot Yitzchak

acharei zot, after

he came down the mountain

with his sharpened  knives,

Avraham haggled over land

to bury a wife

whose last moments

were a shofar blast of

six unbearable wails -

He could never

get it out of his body

or his mind even with

the busyness of

finding a wife

for a son, who like Elohim

would never come face to

face with him again.

Where does wisdom

and forgiveness live? -

everywhere and nowhere,

in Ur, Haran and the valleys

and roads of Canaan, in that

inner concealed geography

from which he was always

arriving and departing,

a wanderer till the end.