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The Curse of Cain

The Curse of Cain

Aug 10, 2011 | Bible Story, Cain, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet

My punishment is more than I can bear! He who finds me will kill me in the open field.    Not so. Your crime, cannot cut short my care; your head will be, against such vengeance, sealed. And yet, from the ashes of Eden—length to length— you will roam the desert...
The Crime of Cain

The Crime of Cain

Aug 7, 2011 | Bible Story, Cain, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet

You claim you are not your brother’s keeper, but I detect the absence of a proper fear. What will you say when I raise the sleeper? Though you have ears to hear, you do not hear. I begged you not to join your father’s war and his dreadful crimes not to...
The Birth of Cain

The Birth of Cain

Feb 13, 2011 | Bible Story, Cain, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet

The rising white of a blister on my hand is my blood guilt, my token from the fall— this and the damned weeds that curse the land with stains from our black revolt—our cabal with the snake against heaven’s highest king. Now everything is taken by the thorn and...

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