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Lent 3 A

John 4:5–42

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)

If it’s true as you say, O abstruse teacher

that you are the pale straw aquavit that we pour

at Christmas and Easter and all the great feasts

Then you infuse us like caraway and cardamom

warm us like whiskey in November

tipsy our imaginations to see you even now

Then how crazy was she at the well to dip and draw

when you stood there like a ribbon wrapped bottle

all gift and wonder, no tax or debit required

How crazy are we like grumpy teetotalers

not to pour a glass and sip with you when

we keep dropping our buckets in empty wells