Invincible

they edited the miracles out of the stories

so that the snows of April appeared to the children

only like blank spaces on the canvas between the blurred the moss green trees

so that the pinpoint illumination of a fervent gold in the winter sunlight

had causes on causes and from the sunny painting they

erased the obvious presence of the Sun itself

though I told them how likely was His nativity

given all circumstances were it not for the secret affinities

that they had spiked the finer details which shed more light, true light

upon the subject as my Grandfather would have said

understanding as he did the pristine moment called out from

the longing of the ages;the intrepid rose at twilight in the worst of it

the skies still blooming above the torpedos though we could not see them =but only through a tremulous Christmas faith=

blooming and blooming with invincible stars.

mary angela douglas 21 march 2021