A Prophet's Watch

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+------A Prophet's Watch; The Thoughts Of  Elijah Raising The Widow's Son

The anachronism of it all.
Your mother told me she used
to talk with you of Adam
scooping
out cursed-earth to fit
the body of Abel, his son; of
Cain scarred, slouched
shoulders sobbing in Nod. (Mom’s
ethnology to discourage strife). 
I think now of that night: The
blood moon rising, scowling
atop a flat world of sin. Of owls'
screeches on hunts for the
weak. And…I will not stand
for it anymore. I couldn’t interfere
then but now I can. Lying on your
stomach three times, I whisper
in succession: “God. Is.
Resurrection.” That no one should
die in the presence of a prophet.


------1 Kings 17:17-24
Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?” “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?” Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!” The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.  Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!” Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”