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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Advent, by Rae Armantrout


Advent                  Rae Armantrout           from Poetry Magazine, June 2009 issue


In front of the craft shop,
a small nativity,
mother, baby, sheep
made of white
and blue balloons.

                  *

Sky
           god
                      girl.

Pick out the one
that doesn’t belong.

                  *

Some thing

close to nothing
                               flat
from which,

fatherless,
everything has come.
 
 
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Merry Christmas to all!

2 comments:

Carol Berg said...

Merry Christmas! Beautiful poem.

Jessica Goodfellow said...

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Carol!