abel and cain~ barefoot
in the rain-wet grasses with
mudstains up to their shins.
bloodied elbows and chipped teeth,
we stand alone.
even now, centuries and degrees away
from you, a thousand
miles and lightyears distant, i
remember the way your throat tasted
clutched between my teeth.
i cut my teeth on your knuckles and
choked on my tongue--
you licked the sweat off the backs of my hands
and we share it between us like nothing
was sweeter, not wine

not water.

// jesus wept-- the shortest phrase, the
shortest sentence in
the hebrew book, for a reason.
two singular crystalline tears
shed for the stupidity of the human race
sprinkled the dirt and were gone
in an instant.
just like the twin crystalline words
penned once by a silent monk
and lost to time forever. //