A Woman of Salt Near the Dead Sea

I have seen the pillar of salt, and it remains to this day.
—Flavius Josephus, first century CE

How did they speak of her, this woman
they had known? Lot’s wife turned to salt,
to stone. Perhaps her own family

covered her in shame. Nameless now,
the one undone—
though later there were those who judged,

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