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This is narrative poetry, not narrative prose...
A great deal is lost, actually -- for once, in such a Tuesday Poem -- by presenting it in a ''prose'' format. This poem has something fundamental in common with biblical Hebrew ''prose'', which many biblical scholars (including many of the author's fellow Jews) realize is a misleading term. Very little in Hebrew Scripture is not poetry, however ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009