the flight into egypt
By Sr. Lou Ella Hickman, IWBS - Corpus Christi, Texas, USA - 18 February 2015
from a coptic legend
in honor of all refugees
donkey brown as dust
click clicked across the stones
it must have been spring when they left
she olive dark and child
and he with tallit over fervent shoulders
the wind rustling their robes like leaves
hers pale green and child
both she and child would be hard pressed
in an unknown yet knowing future
becoming oil to cross foreheads with glistening fire