APOCHRYPHA
Without biblical imagery
A desiccated oak leaf
Swivels on its stem,
Stuck in a sunlit sheet of snow
Tracing a wheel within a wheel
With the points of its tips,
And comes to rest
Fixed like a sundial,
Shadow frozen
Upon the face of time
MEISTER ECKHART’S CHRISTMAS SERMON O Christians! What good Behooves you to kneel At mangers of wood To praise the unreal? ...
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