Lacuna

The Rev. Canon Dr. James M. McPherson

 

the angel's words
hanging in the silence
of her pondering,
like fruit to reach
towards and pluck
and taste as the
prophet did with
the forbidding scroll
and found it honey-
sweet; or turn aside
leaving all undone,
until God sent Gabriel
to another greater in
her courage, to reach
out for and take
this terrifying fruit
 
 
 © the Revd James McPherson  
Image St Mary's College, Maryborough Queensland (Used with kind permission)