Dreaming The Impossible

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+------Dreaming The  Impossible; Joseph's Thoughts  In Prison At Midnight

Thralled, the dozing
guards’ candles induce
my childhood’s memory,
(reveal daggers on their
laps unsheathed). Within
my cellmate’s snoring,
two bears, back nestled
to back, in a den hibernating
in winter, I hear my own voice
faint, crescendoing…telling
my 11 brothers I saw the sun,
moon, stars genuflecting. All
of Egypt before me bowing. And   
I still believe. This dire
adversity notwithstanding.
Outside the iron bars, rusting,
I see, too: death, failure,
delusion and despair
congregating- fallen angels
with clipped wings charred,
sneering at me in turns.     


------Genesis 39:11-23
One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.” She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.” When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.