hey josephine kate
welcome to this wild wide world
you will grow in love –
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each newborn baby
has wise ones who come to bless,
bring gifts, praise, omens:
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caspar, melchior,
balthasar – kings with gold, frankincense
and myrrh – following a star.
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written in the god book
we glow like spells of unspelled words
on the unscrolled page
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will we float in light
like morning mist on frost still white
as night’s evening dawns –
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will we make our homes
watched by the gods of ourselves
scanning our future?
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written in that god book
spells untold on unscrolled page
speak the unspelled age.
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freddie omm
epiphany 2020
Our cousin, Josephine Kate Bader, was born on Christmas Day 2019, making triply apt this Epiphany welcome on Twelfth Night, the night of the Magi’s visit.
The Magi, or Three Kings, bringing their gifts to the baby Jesus, from a 6th century mosaic at Sant’Appolinaire Nuovo, in Ravenna.