Goats

Israel, now collateral damage
in your own war, yes, of course, provoked
by  the most savage of means, while you slept
charmed by velvet  dreams of domination

god is hiding in the desert, his goats
are lean, he counts the staves of their poor chests
he hears them bleat, he hears the blast of bombs
that are not his thunder, or are they his?

this lord is…