"Drowning in drought" is such a powerful image. You bring the national crisis to the household level. The suffering of all is experienced individually--and repented individually.
I was coming over to highlight the same image. I live in a land of frequent droughts, interrupted by floods, so this really resonates, literally, and then also metaphorically, with sorrow.
Yes, sorrow is so like drought and then flood, isn't it. There's a poem in this series riffing off of Elijah asking Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" and in it, I imagine Elisha imploring Elijah, "Tell me my inheritance / is more than drought / and downpour..." -- that phrase says a lot for me.
"Drowning in drought" is such a powerful image. You bring the national crisis to the household level. The suffering of all is experienced individually--and repented individually.
Yeah it's close to home, isn't it.
This Elijah series is wrecking me in the best possible way. Holy smokes.
I am glad (?) to hear it, Abby. They have done no less to me as I've worked on them!
I was coming over to highlight the same image. I live in a land of frequent droughts, interrupted by floods, so this really resonates, literally, and then also metaphorically, with sorrow.
Yes, sorrow is so like drought and then flood, isn't it. There's a poem in this series riffing off of Elijah asking Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?" and in it, I imagine Elisha imploring Elijah, "Tell me my inheritance / is more than drought / and downpour..." -- that phrase says a lot for me.