The Second Oracle

Omagh 1999:     where god came he     was queried and     same fourteen men met twenty one

Balaam walked over coals a second time [function, verse, form]       looking from a blood let mountain top the turned-white tent-tops glistened in whistle-wind     before breaking cochlea

had they heard the true name     a plague/seven     on rabid gentiles     with this the hand grew         tame     and Balaam descended but would not defy Israel

angering highest children, highest rank, diligent princes of Moab.

the answer could be seen: smoke of kings rising in the desert for god is not man     was not meant and priests a vessel for commanded lust that commandment could field rank, and rank be dull as sandstone     fielded like a king’s shout.

where a lion roars vultures scatter leaving seven stones and memories of Leinster.

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