{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "cup-eliyahu-marge-piercy", "title": "\"The Cup of Eliyahu\" by Marge Piercy", "author": "Ellie Goldman", "author_handle": "elliegoldman13131743", "author_initials": "EG", "covertext": "The Cup of Eliyahu by Marge Piercy In life you had a temper. Your sarcasm was a whetted knife. /Sometimes you shuddered...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>The Cup of Eliyahu</strong></p>\n\n<p>by Marge Piercy</p>\n\n<p>In life you had a temper.</p>\n\n<p>Your sarcasm was a whetted knife. /Sometimes you shuddered with fear /but you made yourself act no matter /how few stood with you. /Open the door for Eliyahu /that he may come in.</p>\n\n<p>Now you return to us /in rough times, out of smoke /and dust that swirls blinding us. /You come in vision, you come /in lightning on blackness. /Open the door for Eliyahu /that he may come in.</p>\n\n<p>In every generation you return /speaking what few want to hear /words that burn us, that cut /us loose so we rise and go again /over the sharp rocks upward. /Open the door for Eliyahu /that he may come in.</p>\n\n<p>You come as a wild man, /as a homeless sidewalk orator, /you come as a woman taking the bima, /you come in prayer and song, /you come in a fierce rant. /Open the door for Eliyahu /that she may come in.</p>\n\n<p>Prophecy is not a gift, but /sometimes a curse, Jonah /refusing. 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