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Kingdom of Heaven
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62 K I N G D O M O F H E AV E N The father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth and people do not see it. the gospel of thomas After judging each wreath hung on every door on Beacon Hill on a scale of one to five stars, we sit facing each other Christmas evening in the bedroom in your Aunt Striddie’s Empire chairs. Streetlights illumine the blizzard’s gusts that shine over the snow angels we made— the candles blown out in the igloo of snowballs we built to house them in. You ask me: How does this begin? and Why don’t other people want this? Beneath the lamplight, I draw breath, the freckles on your Scandinavian face only even more abundant on the long fingers of your elegant hands. I say: It starts with the meeting of our eyes, and Too often it is what people do not see. ...