After Genesis 3:1-19
The questions fly:
Who did this
what have you done
did you do what
I told you not to do
who told you
you were naked
It was the woman
you gave me
(clever: a double denial,
a double shift: blame
the woman and blame
the One who gave
the woman)
It was the serpent
who deceived me
with his slithering
words (aka, the devil
made me do it)
The serpent says nothing
but he smirks.
The condemnation flows
in reverse order:
a curse of position
a curse of pain
a curse of labor, of work
of toil, of sweat
a curse of dust
raised from dust
returned to dust
and a promise:
to be continued.
Photograph by Frederica Giusti via Unsplash. Used with permission.
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