| Written by Fr. Pier Giorio di Cicco,
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You are the angel I gave to a child.
You come back to me, though I thought I’d
lost you. It was not the angel of foreboding
and conclusions as I’d thought. It was not
the angel pointing earthward, or inward or
in any direction. You were the angel of love and pain,
or rather, simply the angel of the obvious
always escaping — that angels are made of the
little bit they pick up on earth and the
silken feathers of above. They are the marrying
point of pain and love, of sacrifice and wonder.
I know you now when I buy you in porcelain
or bronze, in brightening crystal and lead, or
marbled like my eyes, slated for Christ.
I know you now and hope to see you in
all things without wings.
There are no wise men. You are the
days of our lives following the wounded
hope, the wizened and beleaguered — those who
follow their sorrow to the ends of the earth
for an answer and see only themselves in
the night sky, mercy marrying the lust for God;
and the bandaged, ruined feet — coming to a manger
to find more of ourselves, newly innocent
as the clockwork of the skies.
You do not fool me, angels; you see with my eyes
what I would see with grace; my self denuded
and radiant-hearted, and the star of Bethlehem
carried in Kansas, Peoria, Illinois, and places
far and away from me, brought to His care.
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| Fr. Pier Giorgio DiCicco, a priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto, has authored 17 books of poetry. He was born in Italy, raised in Montreal, Boston and Toronto and has taught at the University of Toronto. He is currently Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto. His poetry is published by The Mansfield Press
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