“The uncle never mentions / his nephew / in the casual back-alley banter
Tag: genesis
S3E15 Sojourners, Oaks
“Your offspring will sojourn. / They will wander and be enslaved.”
S314 Abram and Sarai Talk Theology, Mirroring
“When I say the word / mother / you think of your own”
“It can go both ways: / the Hebrew can enslave / the Egyptian.”
S3E13 Bill and Ted and Bram
“Perhaps the first world was as ordinary / as a trip to the dentist:”
S3E12 POV
“Pen in hand, I bloody the page / with comments on point of view.”
S3E11 Babel
“The memory of flood / still lingering, / they build a tower, climbing /
to the heavens / where God’s waters / cannot reach.”
S3E10 Inside, Brother Sons
“From inside from the dark
creature stench the slime
of creeping things
Inside with the relentless rocking”
From In Beginning: Poems
S3E09 Euphemism
“The scriptures use idioms / but apart from phrases / shaped by sheltering translators /
they have little room / for euphemism.”
