Moses’ Logos
The logos, the logue
The Decalogue — the rod
The shepherd, the pastor,
The master
Whose rod is a branch
Of the tree of knowledge
Of good and evil
Of dogma, unyielding, inflexible,
Stiff
But let’s not forget, for Moses to rupture
The Pharaoh’s law
His rod became a snake, a branch
Alive and lithe
Of the tree of life
The serpent encoiled around the rod
Restricts what fasces amplifies
Ex hodos
The road’s out, not back
