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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A different choir


A different choir:
donkey brays
cattle low
sheep bleat
wood creaks

out in the fields
the choir sings

in holy terror
terrifying songs
terrifying words

here in this quiet
dirty place fit
for animals
a different choir
a different chorus

a baby’s cry


Photograph by Teodoro S. Gruhl via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission