Unable

UNABLE

First to die

ABEL

and no brother’s hand

to staunch

the bleeding

the woe

and

the weariness

how to tell

FATHER

ADAM

Or not to

the self-denial

the burying

and

MOTHER

the broken-facedness

a crack

in nature

and the ground

Unsoaked

by the blood

crying

recompense

much weeping

two sons

in a day

and the long walk

into

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