By Richard Mather
Eve lay down and trembled.
Her belly grew fat like the moon.
Her womb conspired murder .
Cain was gloomy at heart.
Abel and his animals
inflamed passions on all sides.
Cain looked up
and the sky shivered grey.
Sin flew out the door of heaven.
It stuck in Cain’s gullet
like Aaron’s rod.
Cain slaughtered his brother like a goat.
He trembled as wiped the gore
on his father’s coat of skin,
which still carried the aroma
of grandfather God.
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