Nativity

      Was there carnage in that shot
      World-leveling God begot?
      Stubborn Christ born in an abandoned lot.
      Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.
5     Cracked heaven the dividing splinter teared,
      All that riotous confusion heard
      Before the roaring droplet seared.
      Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.
      Did that staring infant's head
10    Dimly unwrapped above the stiff bed
      Know what it engendered?
      Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.
      Pack-animals' musty blood
      Flubbed responsive where they stood,
15    Deep in the passionless mystery.
      Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.
      And was that woman bleeding there
      As in a tapestry, for the crawling god prepared?
      All generation in a wound condoned.
20    Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.
      Did that penitential infant shriek
      Climbing heaven's empty cheek
      Draw ecstatic thunder down?
      Old cross crows are drubbing in the dust.

 

From the collection "Unimagined Things"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.