Dan Lukiv

And It Came About After the Death of Moses, poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt, a poem based on chapter seven of Joshua // At a table that transcends / The space between sunsets / Or dark moons, / And the distance between the / Demise of empires, like / Babylon that fell in one night / And Greece that chopped / Itself into four, imagine / Achan, lover of gold and fine / Clothes and his family who died / At his side, seated with leprous / Gehazi and Judas the metaphor / Who lost his intestines; listen / To them speak in hushed / Voices, hiding their wisdom / Under their tongues.