Magdalene

Magdalene

It takes a woman lovely in sin to wash his feet in tears & dry them with her ample hair, a rich girl humbled but brazen enough to speak the news— apostle to the apostles— that he's risen. It takes her unction to anoint his body without wavering, then find it gone.

Poet: Hilary Sideris
Source: @VerseDaily
Books: @AbeBooks

Look! Look! he is climbing the last light

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