Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as The Ruby of the Universe (canadiancontent [Vancouver, BC], 2000). // An excerpt // The Lineage // Assyrian jaw-hooks / In sundry bleeding; / Such fish / On a clothesline. // This march of joy, / This lineage of Nimrod-- // Celebrated with wine / And roasted flesh / And laughter. // This was the day / Samson lost his eyes, / And the Waldenses their blood. // This was the day / Another Canaanite / Shot a bloody arrow / Through some man's / Liver.
