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Salmon - Boaz - Obed (detail): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1511-12, fresco, Cappella Sistina, Vatican
never blink in compassion
and care, straight hair
always at the ready
church on Sunday
PTA and ballgames
during the week
an upholder of Christ’s
dictum to visit the sick
came in one day with
an accidental needle stick
used needle, owner of said
blood unknown
she shivered and shuttered
herself in fear of HIV
but it had been there
overnight, reassurance
the horror the possibility
an unlikely outcome
she went back to who she was
bravely, knowing the risks
Asa - Jehoshaphat - Joram (detail): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1511-1512, fresco, Cappella Sistina, Vatican
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