Standing with pen in hand, at a crossroads with Sarah

'I have never separated poetry from prayer.' Derek Walcott

I was deep into this project of writing poems inspired by Sarah when a dream prompted me to write in the form of a prayer. “Begin with the setting,” the dream instructed.

At the time, I had been wondering what it would have been like to stand, as Sarah stood, at the crossroads between the spirituality of her ancestors and that of the emerging monotheism …