Hagar and Ishmael,
Jean-Charles Cazin, 1880

And she departed, and wandered about in the
wilderness of Beer-sheba. (Gen. 21:14)

Those who know the story know God’s voice
will soon arrive. Miraculous water will appear.
But in Cazin’s vision of this afternoon, there’s only

heaviness in the sky. The hint of a ruined moon
marks their yellow world, a landscape bleached,
unblessed. A patch of wild yucca made softer

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