Teacher, they said to Jesus, The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say? —John 8:5

 

You know how it is when your speeding car spins on the ice at night

and you think here it is?

When the deer spring across the headlights?

When you begin to slip down the steep and icy steps?

Now imagine someone is about to push you, someone you know

and then they don’t.

Copyright © 2017 by Marie Howe. From Magdalene​ (W. W. Norton, 2017). Used with permission of the author.