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  • By the Well with Camels
  • Sarah Antine (bio)

One opens his hand for water.I pore for him, for the herd,carry the jug.Untied tent flaps breathing out

as if we were sleeping,he says to my father, my brother, my mother,Isaac needs a wife and Rebecca is the one.When dirt is dry, she waters,There is a vacancy, she fits. Hereare some gold bracelets, a ringfor your nose, hesays to me.

Pack all that belongsto you. I've outgrownthese dresses, my heavy cloak, [End Page 80] my folded bedding.I won't bring dolls.Just the oldest thing,an empty chestthat can hold all thatis given. [End Page 81]

Sarah Antine

Sarah Antine creates opportunities for women and girls to participate in Jewish rituals by teaching cantillation and helps organize the women's tefillah groups that meet at her shul. She received an MFA from Hunter College. Her poetry has appeared in Big City Lit, Lilith Magazine, Bridges, pms: poem memoir story and in, Torah: A Woman's Commentary. She is poet-in-residence at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. She lives in Potomac with her husband and two daughters. She can be reached at casesarasara@gmail.com.

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