On exile: Yoder, said, and a theology of land and return.(Critical Essay) Cross Currents | January 1, 2003| | COPYRIGHT 2003 Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

 
We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere. As if traveling 
Is the way of the clouds. We have buried our loved ones in the 
     Darkness of the clouds, between the roots of the trees. 
And we said to our wives: go on giving birth to people like us 
     For hundreds of years so we can complete this journey 
To the hour of a country, to a meter of the impossible. 
We travel in the carriages of the psalms, sleep in the tents of the 
     Prophets and come out of the speech of the gypsies. 
We measure space with a hoopoe's beak or sing to while away the 
     Distance and ...

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