by ST, 1980s– remember I like puns and it’s helpful to know Roman history & mythology. I January, the door, swings open wide; A cold gust from behind meets the comfort inside. To the hearth stumbles the aged of snow-white beard, Kisses th’infant face, where his lost youth is mirrored. He blankets and rocks theContinue reading “The Calendar”
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In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival
by ST, in the 1980s From early spring, in the season of the Lamb, We waited for news from the distant land: How fares the Vineyard, shall the tree give the fig? When harvest time is here, shall ought fill the crib? The month of Julius, then Augustus, the days were wasted, To pregnant fields,Continue reading “In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival”
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