Christmas
This day
This day
a new splinter
off the ray will
settle on earth,
fill all dark
places with new
light, happen
to each other like candles,
like a warm oven's bread,
like a warm oven's bread,
like every human thing.
It will clink through the cold
like finger strands of crystals
colliding, floes of clear
river ice beginning to soften
under a dripping
warm sun. It will touch
everyone gently, brighten
the eye, warm the skin
with rich morning food
on the inside, absorb
every fluid glide with a
thirsty page. This
gives reason to
contemplate the whole,
the stretch of every
sky, the taste
of every living Word.
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