Selected, sold
out of his land: "Whose feet they hurt
with fetters:
he was laid
in iron.
He was celled
with king's personnel.
And to Pharaoh's: I have a dream—
there is none to interpret it —
He said: "Do not interpretations
belong to God?
He was acknowledged
and positioned —
Second in the kingdom
second only to the king,
Able to mandate
provident steps: The gathering of corn
"as the sand of the sea . . .
until he left numbering;
for it was without number."
In time,
his actions shepherded
The shepherding Hebrews
into Egypt
Part of the larger plan
of a foreknowing Father —
The divine hand
forever stretched out.
