When I consider the adoration
Of the Word resurrected
In prelapsarian admiration
By the incarnate insurrected;
How a stable struck by hay and light
Consumed the world,
Re-built conceptual night,
Reestablished the Word,
And re-coded the sky,
And all its reflections
That the infinite can codify
By this light-born confection.
How all the world’s revolutions ever known
Were here in scraggly starlight shown.
Daniel Thompson was born in Tübingen in the Black Forest of southern Germany and moved to New Orleans at six years old. He lives and writes poetry there to this day. His latest work can be read in The Banyan Review, Sojourners Magazine, New Square, San Pedro River Review, and The Delta Review, among others.