Drams given as gifts to Annamelech and Adrammelech at Sepharvaim
That latter namesake drew a sword above his head and slew his father Assyrian Sennacherib, drew blood then fled the temple
Cain remade in each generation, well-thumbed claythat familiar haggard visage
He is banished from villages and haunts hinterlands
A million guises: a wise hittite, a Czech rabbi, Hitler, and reluctant-to-die Rasputin
Mad assassin glad-handed when handling his dad
How effortlessly progeny stab and carve up their origins
Slaughtered, like a calf marked for death wrestles breathlessly
Blood spattered against the handle of his hazel axe guilty of kinslaying patricide
Magnificent king of the raging, changeless Euphrates beneath which lie angels chained until doomsday
Theophory teased out by onomancy.
Alchemisland 
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