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The The Blessing of Joseph


My son of many colours
full of the sky blue
deep of the earth brown
green by yellow sprouts
from one pink womb.

A curly Joseph
sold by your brothers
“You are a faithful creeper near the spring.”
who bears the roundest, deepest
coloured fruit
and curls gently over the walls
your brothers build
to give them your fruit
feed them your love.

For this you are favoured
by God,
by Jacob
by Pharaoh
full of the sky blue
colour
deep of the earth brown
blessed.

By Mary Ann Sullivan
This first appeared in an Eratio Editions e-chap.