David Hyatt-Bickle Poet Dizain

Child born from water and fire

I witnessed a body lying 
On the dead earth while formless and dismal
A mire swollen and dying  
From this body arose a child so small
Out of the flesh stinking of gall 
A child whiter than a pearly lily 
Who flew into paradise tranquilly 
The foulness of flesh remained not
The child’s pureness left the world’s morbilli
For water and fire begot


Inspired by a passage from "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, in the long text version.

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