25.XII.1993

"For a miracle, take one shepherd’s sheepskin,
throw
In a pinch of now, a grain of long ago..."

Joseph Brodsky

John 1:14

"The oriental histories tell a tale
Of a bored king in ancient times who..."

Jorge Luis Borges

To The Infant Martyrs

"Go smiling souls, your new built cages break,
In heaven you’ll learn to sing ere here to speak..."

Richard Crenshaw

Herod's Suspicions

"Why art thou troubled, Herod? What vain fear
Thy blood-revolving breast to rage doth move?..."

Richard Crenshaw

The Magi

"Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale
unsatisfied ones..."

William Butler Yeats

Magnificat

"Her soul opened, but slowly,
a late bloom of thunder stirring
at the edge of a rainstorm..."

Carol Muske

Could I Know?

"Could I know that they were so important?
Just the two..."

Amos Russell Wells

(The Innkeeper in the Nativity story)