Paint. Paint the soft lines

of damp cheeks across a canvas.

Paint the deep eyes, the little

hand and the orb.

Splash some color along the curve

of her neck and suggest

the wafting scent of his musty flesh,

the earth soiling her mantle’s hem,

the wet hay and animal sweat.

Fill out her rounded face

and his chubby legs. Paint well

her ponderous humanity and his

unquestioned divinity

and her smile, Luke. Paint her smile

and we shall see

how well your lazy eye can see.