Previously published as The Wise Man (Writers Brew Press, England, 1999). // 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.
