John Knox Presbyterian Church<\/a> in Seattle. I hope they will bless you as you prepare for the coming of Christmas.
\n<\/em><\/h5>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Christ\u2019s Mother Reflects, His Childhood <\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cand for him to see me mended \/ I must see him torn.\u201d\u00a0 -Luci Shaw \u201cMary\u2019s Song\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stood at the door, wet-faced and panting.
\nin his hands three baby birds. They\u2019re hungry<\/em>,
\nhe sniffed, nested them in a bowl with grass,
\nfed them worms until they died. After, I held him
\nfor an hour, his soul too much for this world.<\/p>\nWho doesn\u2019t want normal for her son?
\nYet he chose the lonely of the children, played ball
\nwith the friendless. He was quiet, sat with me
\nlong hours, watching: the grass, the anthills, the sunset.
\nSometimes his sigh at such beauty went down too far.<\/p>\n
Do you know where I lived before I found you?<\/em>
\nHe asked once as we sat on cold stones
\nwatching fireflies, Joseph inside with the little ones.
\nI breathed long and answered. No, my love, I don\u2019t<\/em>.
\nI scanned his face with my eyes: a spark, a smile I didn\u2019t know,
\nas if his chest\u2019s glow might burst, blind me in its radiance.<\/p>\nWe never spoke in metaphors: Not light of the world,
\nnot cornerstone, not sacrificial lamb.
\nWhen I found him at his studies, face down toward
\nIsaiah\u2019s words, he looked at me and laughed.
\nFor my sake? I wondered. His own shock?
\nA memory of the words he would fulfill?<\/p>\n
Later: the teaching, the miracles, the homelessness
\nhe chose. How to follow the child you raised?
\nHow to warm yourself in his light
\nwithout catching flame and melting?<\/p>\n
Drink his blood, eat his flesh, beg his body
\nto release from the wood it lay torn upon.
\nRecognize the great pain he\u2019d always carried,
\nhow his split soul all along was mending mine.<\/p>\n
<\/h5>\n\u00a9 Micha Boyett Hohorst, 2010. All rights reserved. Please do not reprint or post without attribution.<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each day this week, I\u2019ll be sharing from a series of five Advent poems I wrote for John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle. I hope they will bless you as you prepare for the coming of Christmas. \u00a0 Christ\u2019s Mother Reflects, His Childhood \u201cand for him to see me mended \/ I must see him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,101],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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