If you'll permit the indulgence, wrote about this
photo.
Musings on My Wife's First Communion Picture
Why am I so entranced by
her early pictures?
She looks like the child I would design
had I the chance to design a child.
First, she would be a “she” because,
as the song goes,
Thank Heavens for Little Girls.
She would have blonde hair the color of the sun
and her forehead would tilt forward
in shyness or anticipation.
The white of her Communion dress
would contrast with pocked-grey siding
and the sun would cover half her face
like Moses’s at the Burning Bush.
There would be a fence in the background
symbolizing spiritual safety and her right
hand would clasp the Crucifix like a nun’s,
her index finger upon His breast.
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