Magic last line !! Cheers P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim Bennett Sent: 18 November 2009 07:39 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: snap nativity wandering home early morning with the newspaper stop by a shop window to see a nativity scene a star fixed to the stable roof casts light across tiny figers and there you are dutiful as always standing at the crib I often think of you that night not the angels singing and shepherds watching sort of night but the night in a stable your wife having the baby a not so silent night and how you must have coped no gas and air no help if anything went wrong you must have been frightened wondering where that angel with the wings went the one that got you into it and maybe wishing if you had the chance again you would tell it to go pluck itself No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.71/2510 - Release Date: 11/17/09 19:26:00