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Liz Dolan, a retired English teacher, has published poems, memoir and short stories in New Delta Review, Nidus, Rattle and many other journals. She has received four grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts in the last two years. She is currently implementing a grant organizing a traveling exhibit of her fellow poets’ poetry throughout southern Delaware.
Liz Dolan
The Annunciation: Second Thoughts
“...let it be done unto me according to your
word.”
Luke 1:38
It’s not that I don’t appreciate
the privilege of the virgin birth, Lord.
But with the Holy Ghost hovering
and Gabriel’s wings deafening me,
perhaps I was too hasty
with the “Be it done unto me.”
Anne and Joachim will disown me.
The neighbors will gossip, Lord.
And Joseph, as humble as he is,
may find the story hard to believe.
Don’t get me wrong, Lord,
“My soul doth magnify.”
But maybe, for the family,
we could have the hoopa*
and the crushing of the glass.
* Yiddish for tent