More Questions About Angels

Another Quiet Morning
in the neighbourhood

Passersby,
on their way to work,

did not notice anything amiss
as they strolled through the church square

The doorman stoically
listened to George Frideric Handel
on his Baroque-Pod,

while the two saints
responsible for guarding a gaggle of angels,
were squirming from embarrassment

over two little angels at their feet
who were at each other's throats

and would not heed
the saints' admonitions,
not even listen to their warnings
of fallen angels

St. Barbara turned
away in despair

*

Yet,
"Of all the questions you might want to ask
about angels, the only one you ever hear
is how many can dance on the head of a pin" *

Photographed
Monday morning
around St. Ulrich Square
© by Merisi

* Quoted from Billy Collins'
poem "Question About Angels"