The Common Good
December 2006

'There is No Love Unless There is Imagination' (Andre Tchelistcheff)

by Kathleen Gunton | December 2006

She left

with her sack of stones

and one dying rose,

fragrant as Pinot Noir.

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She left
with her sack of stones
and one dying rose,
fragrant as Pinot Noir.

Someone said they saw her
on a downtown street,
quoting from a weathered Bible,
drinking from a wrinkled bag.

It’s December-cold.
I see the baby God
come like a crescent moon
to rest in her lap.

Kathleen Gunton is a photographer
and teaches in Orange, California

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