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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 30X: | Dec. 2025 |
| Poem: | 104 words |
By Jonathan Yungkans
the Scripture in Dad’s last Christmas card
—After Luke 2:10, and the painting Le Monde Visible (1962) by René Magritte*
“... I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people.” was it a joy for us since his voice whose gust could snap a mast clean in two would be gone or a joy for him a rock motionless on a white linen tablecloth facing sea and moon ready either to become sand and pass through an unseen hourglass onto a beach or to sail with no warning word on a wooden table waiting for the tide
*Footnotes:
Scripture, Luke 2:10, quoted from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010).
Link to image and essay for Le Monde Visible (1962) by René Magritte:
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6397642
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