At Christmas time, the most humble and overlooked places can share in the wonder of this supernatural time. It was during such a lowly encounter as this, I tried to capture and preserve in writing a few illuminated moments so as to never forget. Perhaps I was tapping in to the sense of that very first Christmas…
Old-fashioned glow of lights
in obscure places
announces Christmas’s approach
when illumination heightens
the everyday ordinary
into the glorious.
Even in a darkened hallway
with one Noel candle present,
Heaven and nature sing.
Chris O’Riley 2012
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