Hound of Heaven Hymns

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noel noel

this star doesn’t
shine alone it
moves and shoots
shatters and pierces
for its light is also
darkness the splintering
manger prickly hay
guttering oil lamp
breathy wheezy
lumbering restless
animals whose coarse
and smelly coats fill
and squeeze the
sheltered rude space
for the fragile three
with visitors and threats
aplenty unfolding
through Gaza to Egypt
and from Bethlehem
through Jerusalem to
Tyre and Persia
and today tomorrow
till the darkness bursts
beyond my control
and yours from the
the eclipsed death of the
skull–shaped hill
to a dawn that has
no date and a shining
where one life alone
is all
noël
noël
no end