Passover

Linda Pastan

1971

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I set my table with metaphor:

the curling parsley—green sign nailed to the doors

of God’s underground; salt of desert and eyes;

the roasted shank bone of a Pascal lamb,

relic of sacrifice and bleating spring.

Down the long table, past fresh shoots of a root

they have been hacking at for centuries,

you hold up the unleavened bread—a baked scroll

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Linda Pastan

1932–2023

Linda Pastan was born in New York City and was a poet and essayist. She served as an instructor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, was poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 until 1995, and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1958 Dylan Thomas Poetry Award and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

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