Dan Lukiv

Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt, a poem based on chapter thirteen of First Chronicles // Obed-edom, servant of Edom, / Ha!, how Jehovah's spirit / Made the faces of your household / Aglow, for three months!, how / Gentle winds passed through / Your house that smelled of olive / Oil and wine and roasted fat, / How you, not a Philistine from / Gath, caught David's thought, / Like an eagle catches prey in / Its talons, but you were never / A predator, and you were certainly / Never red nor hairy like Esau, / You servant of Edom, ha!