Detail from Nativity, Master of Salzburg, 1400.
Joseph mulls it over
Ordinary time: Learning to listen
To the lines
that set up the line
that everyone remembers
Cloud of unknowing
Fear and vanity run ahead
To set their traps
Eternal problem of the spiritual life:
Hedging the bet
Here where it is
God is not competing, just loving
Ink
Shadow passing over
the fate of the tree
Drifting in and out of awareness
Into the maw
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