The Godfather

Michaelangelo painted God
wearing a forked white beard
and wrapped with a pink sheet
in whose voluminous folds
babies, winged and naked
hover and smile.
They are wonderfully plump
with wavy blond hair.

Angelo's God is built
like a stevedore
and though his hair is white
you get the feeling
that when he was young
it was black
and nothing
could plaster it down