If Mary and Joseph were in high school, before the angel appeared

By June she
was pushing
through halls
with a belly
swollen huge
by the consequence
of her mistake,

past painful stares
and whispers, girls
twisting their hair
in front of lockers.

I got high fives
in gym class for
a baby that did
not belong
to me. But

I accepted,

this was previously published in my schoool's arts journal Saxifrage.