HAARLEM KIRCHE AGAIN

The painting's staffage are ignoring God
Since He plainly wishes to pass incognito.
As usual, He's inhumanly handsome
And, having forgotten about scale,
Stands 10 or 11 feet tall. Also,
A nimbus hovers over His head.
An officious angel having taken pains
To smuggle it across the border

Disguised as cookware
(Yes? You want to know whether the angel
Or God's nimbus was disguised?

Either.

Both.)
He ducked into the painting to be less noticeable
And took a seat behind a pillar which Saanredam

Put there in case God needed a place

To hide behind for a moment or two. Soon,

The servant sitting beside him will start her story;

It will hold him rapt, even though he wrote it.