Otto Dix

In Exodus

Moses is hidden

in a cleft, behind God’s hand,

begging,

and he sees — rushing past him — 

God’s back, diminishing.

Moses stops begging.

God’s back is black fog.

I know. He, we guess,

means to do it,

to do all of this.

The brute center part

of an iridescent moth.

The carnation

against the man.