I keep meaning to post this. Helen had another poem published in the December 26, 2008 edition of the National Catholic Reporter. See it in place on http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2904 or just enjoy it below. (see http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/tanner/annunciation.jpg.html for the painting that inspired it).

Annunciation
(after Tanner)

No proper medieval lady
at her books, no stiff
brocades or tapestries
on https://laparkan.com/buy-accutane/ stone, no lily, no

angelic wings:
this child is soft,
her space marked off
by cloth and color.

All her gaze is lost
in golden light,
unseeable Presence.
Her body folds toward it,

protecting what it would
invade. What words
she hears are perhaps
not so clear

as the evangelist
records:
only light,
invitation.

To refuse
would leach all color
from the earth.

— M. Doretta Cornell
Hawthorne, N.Y.