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!