The Godhead
       

When God had a Body,
He went on foot like an animal
through thick trees to spy on His creation.

While in said form, He looked cross
at the first two playing hide-and-seek
with their flesh in leaves and branches.

He revealed Himself in parts. Eye
and arm, ear, fist, face, angel wing, and feather.
                                Jacob beat God down.
How perfectly strange to know suffering
before it happened. A cipher:
at genesis, to know then is worse,

that the second would spill out
one son from her womb to kill the other,
that Your Own Body is a memory

of events that haven't yet happened—
a Son who is Your spitting image,
who knows the outcome coming for you.

Imagine God bathing with water and lye,
ash, sand, a handful of black soil.
Imagine God dressing, putting on a body
to blend in. Does one bathe a body

that one puts away? Does one sleep and eat
for it? God has no body, they say. God has
nobody.

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from God Had a Body
Blue Light Books
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