A Breath, On Christmas (After A Stormy Eve)

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Morning

Christmas

Grey above

Bright water birds

Swift, bluster by

And with the wind

The hawk and gull

Their feathered arrows

Letting fly

Find mark of mind

Your Pneuma new

Bright-breathed bellow

Sigh through our ruin

With Your Ruach

O, brooding Bird

Descend to blow

As when with infant lungs first filled

You cried and breathed

With us

Below

— Christopher James

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Christopher James

Reading, writing and very little arithmetic. Currently husbanding, dog walking, and hunter-gathering from a ship builder’s village in Virginia.