Joseph Stella Another Dance of Spring
I love this poem by Li-Young Lee. It's called "Nativity" but is about inner birth, which I associate with both Lent and Spring:
Nativity
Li-Young Lee
In the dark, a child might ask, What is the world?
just to hear his sister
promise, An unfinished wing of heaven,
just to hear his brother say, A house inside a house,
but most of all to hear his mother answer, One more
song, then you go to sleep.
How could anyone in that bed guess the question finds
its beginning in the answer long growing
inside the one who asked, that restless boy, the
night's darling?
Later, a man lying awake, he might ask it again, just
to hear the silence charge him, This night
arching over your sleepless wondering,
this night, the near ground
every reaching-out-to overreaches,
just to remind himself out of what little earth and
duration,
out of what immense good-bye,
each must make a safe place of his heart, before so
strange and wild a guest as God approaches.
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