Booth

Peter

 

Stood excited next to Him

On the mountain

Was Jesus tempted to let him

Build it? 

Was he tempted

To  consider companionship

With Moses and Elijah

The ones who got the drift 

Send the disciples back down to the valley

After the construction

 

 Mary

The house down the road  matches the robin's

Egg-blue shrine to Mary

She chuckles 

When we drive by

My friend's son called from Labrador

He will have three days in Kuwait to get acclimated

Before he arrives in Baghdad

I prayed the Stations of the Cross last night

 I  never could get why the Roman Catholics

Worshiped Mary so much

I believe I understand now

But now I realize she allowed

Her Son to be sacrificed

Mine is not the same thing

Of course  not

I whispered

But it is

Sukkoth

During the Feast of Booths

A temporary shelter is raised

In backyards

Roof open to the sky 

Meals are shared there

The kids camp out 

For days

A remembrance of the forty years

We are always meant to move on

Roof open to the sky

 

Home

 

Let us build a booth

See the stars