My friend
wrote
this icon.

“You don’t paint icons,”
she said.
“You write them.
You are writing
a prayer.

“You begin with a small
brush. Then use
smaller and
smaller
ones.”

She entered the tomb
with her
brushes,
paint and
trepidation.

She paced
and wrote
until her prayer
appeared–
white linen, dark robe,
beard, fingers, forehead,
her lips and his,
her cheek on his,
his life for hers.

Credits and References:
Partial copy from The Entombment (Russian, Late 15th Century) Icon written and photographed by Ann Green. Used with permission.

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