By Pavel Chichikov
Manifest from Nazareth, but not the only One
Bread – perhaps a jest: tax-paying fish,
Dust and spittle on the Savior's thumbs
Deep red wine of wedding feasts
Another world's immense diaphanous form
Ionized, the surface of a star,
Not pantheistic Deity – God of things,
Not Precious Ichor – Blood and Plasma
Square-stemmed Mint, Ease-All, in April,
Crowned not viciously with thorns but flowers,
Rose-flesh in the swelling hip
Not pierced, not piercing to the gentle Carpenter
Collect of the cheerful prayers, the mockingbird:
One ancient tree and he my Lady's angel
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