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+title: The angel to Abraham
+genre: verse
+
+id: angeltoabraham
+toc: "The angel to Abraham"
+
+ekphrastic:
+    image: "Sacrifice_of_Isaac-Caravaggio.jpg"
+    title: "Abraham, Abraham!"
+    link: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#/media/File:Sacrifice_of_Isaac-Caravaggio_%28Uffizi%29.jpg"
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    class: elegies
+    order: 10
+    prev:
+    - title: Dead man
+      link: deadman
+    next:
+    - title: Feeding the raven
+      link: feedingtheraven
+...
+
+| Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:
+| what if you miss my small voice amongst the creaking
+| of your own grief, kill your son unknowing
+| of what he will be, and commit Israel to nothing?
+
+| Abraham, you must know or hope that [God][]
+| will not allow your son to die; you must know
+| that this is a test, but then why
+| are you so bent on Isaac's destruction?
+| Look at your eyes; there is more than fear
+| there.  I see in your eyes desperation,
+| a manic passion to do right by your God
+| whom you are not able to see or know.
+
+| Am I too late?  I [will try][] to stay
+| your old hands, the knife clenched
+| within them, intent on ending life.
+
+| Will you hear my small voice amongst the creaking,
+| or will it be the chance bleating of a passing ram?
+
+[God]: boar.html
+[will try]: i-am.html