Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
had made all that the Lord had commanded Moses ~ Exodus 38:22
Bezalel
the Frank Gehry of his day
a nice Jewish artist –
the lineage to prove it.
He made what he was
told to make.
I want to see it in a museum
or still in use, but
Bezalel’s work
is buried under the
dust of history
or was a story.
I hope the former
I travel the world with
a shovel and
an ancient dream
hoping for a glimpse
of a spec of
what I’ve been told.
. . . according to the holy shekel. ~ Exodus 38:24
Oh Holy shekel
you used to be just
a regular piece of money
I could have bought a
sandwich with, until I
gave you to the Cause
and upped your value
right into the clouds.
The copper of the waving was seventy talents ~ Exodus 38:29
The words keep changing
or rather what they mean.
You can’t say talent today
without increasing your price.
It used to be a measurement of weight
until the Romans fell and now
we only pretend our talent
has weight.