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Sea of Reeds 2<\/a> (credit: Valentin Hintikka, license: CC BY-SA)<\/p><\/div>\n

All I asked was to see clearly. I washed my shins in the sea of reeds. From the other side, these symplegades don’t look too menacing. I hope more will risk their passage.<\/p>\n

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This short piece was first published on my Facebook page 18 April 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A poem for Passover 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mythology","category-poetry","tag-crossing-over","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Cutting Reeds • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2011\/04\/the-cutting-reeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cutting Reeds • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A poem for Passover 2011.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2011\/04\/the-cutting-reeds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-18T21:46:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-18T22:11:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sea_reeds_2_12695113484.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"854\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. 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