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Hyatt Regency Dead Sea Resort

Weary of Encino, concubines and wives mob the Eye of the Needle in holy pilgrimage  to the Dead Sea's turquoise waters near Masada and the caves they come in somber homage all summoned by brochures   to mummify each other  with ancestral mud scrub pores clean with sponges of venerable sweat it is youth they, seek  the laurels that only spring provides they would themselves be trophies smooth, golden and engraved the sun retreats-- embarrassed behind Judian Hills the sea reflecting umber  now darkens into sleep   Dead skin exfoliated sliced cucumbers on eyes each orders up a magnum of Golan Heights champagne Sleep comes, and with it dreaming of  rising in new skin to writhe like snakes discarding the lives that they have lived   the Sea is almost silent but for Bathsheba's wail a choked and  mocking laughter that ripples into wave 

Copyright © July 2000 Rachel F. Spinoza


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