Water & salt
The weeping woman who knelt at the feet
of Jesus and anointed him for burial
is sister to the lithe Abishag; the maid
who cradled the hoary head of David
and warmed his paper skin with her own.
Her tears remind one of Bathsheba’s,
wept over a husband, murdered
by a lover-king. The salt from those tears
brings to mind Lot’s nameless wife
who found herself drowned in a tsunami
of fear and regret. There is an essential
economy in the scriptures. Nothing