Baptism nativity

      BAPTISM –  NATIVITY

                "Truly, I tell you," Jesus replied,
                "no one can enter the kingdom of God
                unless they are born of water and the Spirit."
                (John 3:5)

So we came to You together.
Forgetting the fate of loners...

Days burn out beyond the bridge.
The tram pushes us toward night,

among chains –  into frosty smoke
of breath, with the ghost of a curse:

"You will be wounded thrice,
when the bridge parts its embrace..."

Ground blizzard, like Laocoоn,
squeezes throats and  ribcages.

A death shroud –  the Rubicon...
Soundlessly, snow falls from branches.

The bridge to the Necropolis –  to the graveyard.
On it, painfully, it became clear

that we knew death in advance,
like the condemned, unspoken...

But there’s a choice! Behind it in turn –
a volley of constellations on the road...

A volley of Aquarius –  falling short.
An Infant in the heart!

The heart –  in God.