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Blood Offerings (for President George W. Bush on the fall of Baghdad, April 9, 2003)
A Poem by:
Michael Hillmer
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...Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham." "Here I am," he replied. Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
Genesis 22: 1-2 |
He said offer it up
With the knife
The lamb's blood spilt
On altar stone, your sons'
The hours spent
Middle east of nowhere
On a fault-line
Trembling to be taken
Home. Exaltations so lost
The days balance on a beam
This evening is too hot
For spring. The dead
Ashes rest in heretical peace
As darkness drifts
In pale rose blossoms
On the soft wind
Brushstrokes of sunset
In the iris of his eyes
Red as the dying day.
The price of faith hangs
In thin air. The wooden cross hovers there
Like a god remembering a distant son being held
Like a river, bending, straining to leave its bed
By the river's edge.
Nothing lives
Or breathes inside
This lifeline, too sensitive, inflamed
Waiting to be
Lifted up.
Michael Hillmer Copyright © 2003 |
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