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The Day I Was Not Punk’d by 22½ x 22½ of Mixed Media Collage, by Bill Stadick

1/29/2019

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Stephen's Vision, by Mary McCleary (USA). 1989. Courtesy of artist. Click image to visit artist site.
The Day I Was Not Punk’d by 22½ x 22½ of Mixed Media Collage


Ever pull that recess-yard prank where you stare
into the heavens until your classmates look
at what’s so Whoa, stop everything up there?
 
Nothing,
               ha-ha,
                             that’s what.

Not wishing to have the tables turned, I try not
to thieve a peek at whatever certain nothingness
the subject of Mary McCleary’s Stephen’s Vision
finds so rapturous beyond the frame’s finitude,
  
but I can’t help myself
             and it’s not nothing
                          and it’s glorious.

Bill Stadick

Bill Stadick has published poetry in various publications, including Barren Magazine, The Windhover, First Things, The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature and The Cresset. He founded and writes for Page 17, a marketing communications firm
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