Theology
Driving five-year-old Dara to school December 15,
she tells me that God was visible
when he created the world,
but that made him tired,
so he died,
and went to heaven,
then he became invisible.
Suddenly I understand Lao Tzu, Plato,
Augustine and Aquinas,
Barth, Tillich,
all those guys—
the whole thing.
by Gerald Barrax
from The Language They speak is Things to Eat
University of North Carolina Press, 1994