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Winner of the 2013 Utah State Poetry Society Publication Award
YOSSI, YASSER,
& OTHER SOLDIERS
Jon Sebba
In Genesis
the boy hauled the wood
the man carried the flame and the knife.
The son asked his father,
Where’s the ram?
The father replied,
God Himself will provide.
Now
sons are trained to fight,
they carry both fire and sword,
they ask no questions
of flag-waving fathers who send them off.
No angelic voice cries out
to stay the hand,
no stand-in ram is found
as the blade swings down.
In Genesis
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