Poetry
Winter/Spring
2013

Janus Calf

Born in an Illinois barn,

that two-headed calf

 

became a coin Frank flipped

through World War Two,

 

judging heaven from 

a foxhole. “God loves evil…

 

goodness too,” he testifies 

while pouring beer, half

 

of him still watching

one head blink a minute 

 

longer than its brother,

teaching me his zebra

 

God of Eden / Auschwitz,

how He sacrifices to Himself.