On Imagining the Virgin Conception

Annunciation 2025

 

Hard to imagine a virgin conception

                when we live in a box,

                for is that not how we imagine our reality?

                Recall that those former little gods did so as well,

                which meant that if one was bent on a conception

                they had to leave their box and enter ours, as a swan or bull,

                which meant that what they conceived was from the outside in,

                at the loss to some degree of their supposed divinity.

 

                But our reality is not a box,

                but is smear across the face of God,

                which means that the great God is not in a box,

                nor is he outside of ours in need of getting in.

                So, a conception, if God willed it,

                would be from the inside out

                With no loss of virginity.

 

                This I can believe

                 since that is how God has come to me

                from the inside out,

                through my heart

                with no loss of my humanity.