Bible Lesson   They’re thinking of Saint Peter, denying Jesus three times, then getting made pope — it’s all timing. As they adjust their ties   in the mirror, they’re practicing faces, how they’ll phrase it. I was never. I couldn’t have known and it wasn’t my place   to ask. I wasn’t in the room. They hope to get out of this. They pray that their grace won’t be Judas at the end of a rope.     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont July 2020