{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "maggid-marge-piercy-5", "title": "Maggid by Marge Piercy", "author": "Mel King", "author_handle": "melirenking75162", "author_initials": "MK", "covertext": "Maggid By Marge Piercy The courage to let go of the door, the handle.  The courage to shed the familiar walls whose ve...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Maggid</strong><br />\n <em>By Marge Piercy</em> <br />\n<br />\nThe courage to let go of the door, the handle. <br />\nThe courage to shed the familiar walls whose very <br />\nstains and leaks are comfortable as the little moles <br />\nof the upper arm; stains that recall a feast, <br />\na child’s naughtiness, a loud blattering storm <br />\nthat slapped the roof hard, pouring through.</p>\n\n<p>The courage to abandon the graves dug into the hill, <br />\nthe small bones of children and the brittle bones <br />\nof the old whose marrow hunger had stolen; <br />\nthe courage to desert the tree planted and only <br />\nbegun to bear; the riverside where promises were <br />\nshaped; the street where their empty pots were broken.</p>\n\n<p>The courage to leave the place whose language you learned <br />\nas early as your own, whose customs however dan-<br />\ngerous or demeaning, bind you like a halter <br />\nyou have learned to pull inside, to move your load; <br />\nthe land fertile with the blood spilled on it; <br />\nthe roads mapped and annotated for survival.</p>\n\n<p>The courage to walk out of the pain that is known <br />\ninto the pain that cannot be imagined, <br />\nmapless, walking into the wilderness, going <br />\nbarefoot with a canteen into the desert; <br />\nstuffed in the stinking hold of a rotting ship <br />\nsailing off the map into dragons’ mouths,</p>\n\n<p>Cathay, India, Siberia, goldeneh medina2 <br />\nleaving bodies by the way like abandoned treasure. <br />\nSo they walked out of Egypt.3 So they bribed their way <br />\nout of Russia under loads of straw; so they steamed <br />\nout of the bloody smoking charnelhouse of Europe <br />\non overloaded freighters forbidden all ports—</p>\n\n<p>out of pain into death or freedom or a different <br />\npainful dignity, into squalor and politics. <br />\nWe Jews are all born of wanderers, with shoes <br />\nunder our pillows and a memory of blood that is ours <br />\nraining down. We honor only those Jews who changed <br />\ntonight, those who chose the desert over bondage,</p>\n\n<p>who walked into the strange and became strangers <br />\nand gave birth to children who could look down <br />\non them standing on their shoulders for having <br />\nbeen slaves. We honor those who let go of every-<br />\nthing but freedom, who ran, who revolted, who fought, <br />\nwho became other by saving themselves.<br />\n<br />\nhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57595</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Poetry Foundation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 337, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maggid by Marge Piercy | Passover haggadah by Mel King", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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