Authors /
Christine Hemp
Sweet Jesus
(Peter, on the mountain)
Not the light but how it spoke, his transfigured
flesh an instrument of consonance and discord.
As if that were not enough, Elijah? Moses, too?...
We asked for signs and followed what we saw
(Persian priest)
We found it strange the King
was more keen about a baby
than a star....
A necessary slaughter
I must admit at first it threw me,
competing with a portent. (What fools
would treasure light instead of might?)
Such naïveté: Scholars trekking here...
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