The Baby's Smile

It gave more mileage than it promised with that first delight; I could not let it go, for there implicit in its first appearance was a cautious pathway for a newborn light that crept (though with a stunning flash) upon my morning reverie with chills of joy--yet centuries of mystery. From where did it emerge? What ragged saint in sagging skins first saw it, dreamed its origins within him, first found himself aware that love alone defined its gracious gift? That was the plus that unfolded in an old man who saw on facebook his grandaughter-in-law's photographic greeting to the world on a Sunday morning! ~