Neanderthal Messiah — 160

Reunion | Judea I

A vision, guessing between Sophia Loren

Bathsheba

And Eve

Mary Magdalene entered their room

Through the home-made door frame creak

Wearing the golden embroidered kimono

That Iesu’d brought her -

Leaving it wrapped

At the entrance with only MM written

On paper from China

Bowed with rope of Manila

Bartered for

Over 12 years of sojourn’s longing -

And she

Aware of her gifts

And only allowing this night to shine

[The boys too having sworn her for comradery’s sake — off limits.]

Stepped.

Pale unleavened moon light failing behind her

Glowering

As the room’s lights of candles and other artifice — radiated.

An atmospheric change caught his breath

And Iesu found himself in self-examination.

Mary’d moved the lapis lazuli hummingbird adorning the dress

Into her hair

And draped the silken rope loops across her chest.

…

Involuntarily, and in whisper, Judy’s lips divulged a word: 10