Dan Lukiv

These Are the Words That Moses, poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt, a poem based on chapter two of Deuteronomy // Why does rain fall also / Upon the King's Highway, / Upon brotherly mountains / And tableland too? / Even the Edomite, alone in the desert, / Gathers dew to refresh his dry lips and / Stinging throat. Even the sons / Of Esau find comfort in their mothers' / Arms and warm milk. Why does rain / Fall upon the smiter, and the singer of / Soft songs too? Why does the rain pour / Through the tent of a good man but / Off the tent of men planning his Murder? Is this God of Jacob's sons / So impartial that men find fault with / Him?