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Scheduled Attempts at Delight
In December, the people turn their attentionto joy.We don’t do it well, of course:the baubles are tacky, the sales crowded,we line up in a fifty-minute queueto see exactly what we already knew was going to happen,happen just as we knew … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged advent, Christmas, happiness, joy, Seasonal Affective Disorder
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POST SOLSTICE
We’re on the winning side now, my champions,destined for increase, strength, rude health, and laurels.Sure, the car might not start, and the temperaturemight keep us down for a day, or longer,yes, the wicked one, or even the cops,may lay in … Continue reading
Hallelujah
Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation,sing all the residents on all floors of the accountancy firm,sing junkies, sing outcasts, sing church choirs who can’t carry a tune,sing lovers of misery and hopeless pedants of time. Sing for the holy … Continue reading
the miracle
Though notby any stretchor leapa “by the book”OrthodoxChristian(if anything,a “beside the book”semi-literaryheathen),on their two main pointsofChristmasincarnationaltheology,I am basically in completefundamentalagreement. The firstis that the miraclehas alreadyhappened. I mean,on Marsthey’re lookingintentlyat rocks.Rocks!Nothingwrongwith rocks.But here on earth,well –need I go on. And … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus, Mars Rover, miracles, NASA, theology
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Bethlehem and Matamoros
Bethlehem’s only one city, you know.The other day in Matamoros,a Mom, originally from Guatamela,gave birth on the banks of the river.This really happened, you can read about it.Asylum seekers lay her down in the Rio Grande mud,and whispered soothing words … Continue reading
Santa update
Here’s the good news: Santa is not feeling under the weather.Really, there’s not much weather to be under. The Arctic Circleis strangely warm, today, the air lingers around like a shiftless,antiseptic winter doldrum in Florida. Santa, who reads the news,is … Continue reading
battery run
In New England, in December, the sun setsat precisely four twenty-something each day (theremust be some who commemorateit in that way, and good for them, but I don’t), whilethe sunrise gets later and later –past the sixth hour, into the … Continue reading
winter blues
The winter blues are a fine color,the color of Charlie Parker and the sky,the sound of fresh snow coming downto tuck in the soul for rest, or maybe dreaming.
Before the Angels Appeared
That dayLike all daysThere was the sound of the creek in the lower corner of the field,The tempo of the hooves, growing fasterWith the slope of the hill,The susurrus of wool and flesh,Accompanied by the chirp of the sunbird,And the … Continue reading
Bethlehem
Actually, there is a starover your housetonight. Several. Some of themare 10 billion years old. (One was born todaybut it was on the other end of town,behind the Genza galaxy,and is just hanging quietly with its parent cloud,awaiting instruction.) There … Continue reading
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