In the beginning the Word already was.
In the beginning the Word already was.
Pops just sat in the corner when the Roman guy came by. The Roman guy said he’d already sold the story; I just needed to write it.You have the ending, kid, he said.You just need to bang out a beginning.The Roman guy thought it could be turned into a play. The Roman guy thought he could get an imperial sponsor. The Roman guy was going to talk to artisans—a whole product line, he was thinking. Pops poured himself another cup.
We used to joke that Pops was tied up in nots. The locusts not eaten, the hairshirts not worn, the gospels not written. Pops said he was close enough to touch John. Pops said that if he would have been baptized, he never would have left his side. But when Pops took one last look at Mom, he waded back to the river’s edge. In the dust of home, they made a family and tended flock.