"Let hot be hot and cold be cold, let the stone be hard and heavy."

"People grew bored waiting for Moses, too—

some never liked him anyway,

another Mr. Know-It-All,

and why so assured after forty years

of wrong turns? And what made so many women

look at him that way?"

- from "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by Connie Wanek in her book "On Speaking Terms" (2010) from Copper Canyon Press.