The cloak of many colors was reportedly made of snakeskin(Vayeshev- by Tikva Blaukopf

Snakeskin sloughed off, sewn into shirts,

Salted with the spray of the spreading seas.

Soaked with the stale sweat of a searching son

I am the signature stamp of stealth,

The source of stained secrecy.

The strained suit of a stalker

Spread across soul-clutching fists,

A sibling’s stark sorrow.

What am I?

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You got it already? I knew you would.  It’s the fine-spun tunic endowed to Joseph by his father Jacob as the tangible manifestation of fatherly favoritism.

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