BREAK OUT
James M. Truxell
December 10, 2012
It was all very mysterious:
Clearly the massive front door lock had been
Crow-barred into submission . . .
From the inside.
Nothing had been taken
According to the Trustees . . .
Members of the Altar Guild
Agreed.
Bibles, hymnals, and altar cloths,
Collected dust in their assigned places;
Computers were left untouched . . .
No data lost.
Even the copper piping in the
Air conditioning system remained . . .
A king's ransom of precious metal
Undisturbed.
Nothing visible was missing:
Truly, a crisis of the first order for
A place trading in the reality of the
Unseen.
Not-a-Thing had vanished,
Just broke out . . . forcibly . . .
Into a wider world in need of
Wonder.
A crime appropriate to
Christmas.
