<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>The angel to Abraham | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="img/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/common.css"> <script src="./js/lozenge.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="./js/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/verse.css"> <script src="./js/verse.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/elegies.css"> <script src="./js/elegies.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> </head> <body> <article id="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">The angel to Abraham</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"><p>Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:<br />what if you miss my small voice amongst the creaking<br />of your own grief, kill your son unknowing<br />of what he will be, and commit Israel to nothing?</p> <p>Abraham, you must know or hope that <a href="boar.html">God</a><br />will not allow your son to die; you must know<br />that this is a test, but then why<br />are you so bent on Isaac’s destruction?<br />Look at your eyes; there is more than fear<br />there. I see in your eyes desperation,<br />a manic passion to do right by your God<br />whom you are not able to see or know.</p> <p>Am I too late? I <a href="i-am.html">will try</a> to stay<br />your old hands, the knife clenched<br />within them, intent on ending life.</p> <p>Will you hear my small voice amongst the creaking,<br />or will it be the chance bleating of a passing ram?</p></section> </article> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="deadman.html" title="Previous article in Elegies for alternate selves"> Dead man </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="feedingtheraven.html" title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> Feeding the raven </a> </nav> </body> </html>