The Family Way

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.