The Two Thieves

A good thing about home schooling is forcing the children to watch docos on telly. we watched a show about a painting by Picasso, and then one about ancient Egypt. The two shows urged me to write this poem.

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The broken bodies
    Of the thieves
    Taken off the cross
    Thrown upon the ground
    (discarded and broken)
        Turning from yellow
        To blue - as if death
        Was overtaking.

And
    The cannibalistic virgin

And
    The bird call of
    The first sun rise
    That began time.

Cycles & cycles of time
The all-at-once
Spasms of disconnection
Most of us can not even
See Orion.