From "Moses on Mount Pisgah"

For this week’s Poetry Aloud selection, I’ve again chosen an excerpt from my poem “Moses on Mount Pisgah,” one of the dramatic monologues — the first of 33 — in The Twelve-Gated City, a book-length work I’ve been working on for about two years and am now completing. In this poem, the speaker, Moses is a very old man, watching the children of Israel far …