Skullcap

Judith A. Daniels

Skullcap

Skullcap as tight
Hand in a glove.
Weathered with love.

A silk helmet
At the Wailing Wall
Waiting for a stone to fall.

A Messiah message
With kind intent
Or a gas mask

Too futile to prevent
Mass Genocide.

Abraham’s children
Gather there
In its shelter

Within its sacred prayer.