Sometimes we need to take a break from the books to see the sky and the little things in the grass at our feet.
Eden Inversed
an Easter poem
Eden Inversed
Jesus,
Apple of God’s eye,
dangling solitaire
on leafless tree,
bursting red.
As he drops
New Eden dawns
and once again
we Adams choose:
God’s first fruit
or death.
—Christine F. Nordquist
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