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By Ernesto Tinajero
The Christmas marketing machine is starting to turn. The radio already has Christmas songs playing and the displays are coming out. I thought it would be a good time to remind us what Christmas is all about. Here are two advent poems to get us ready for the surprising coming of God as a babe.
To Burp God
Mary, poor, proud,
and strong, takes her
baby upon her left
shoulder.
Jesus, fed and warm,
feels the pat on the large
of his back. Once,
Twice, then …
From the depths
of his tiny body
delivers a galloping
grunt.
The two laugh
together. Mary comes
face to face with
God, cooing.
The Greatest Story
The birth
of love lays
in a manger. God,
surrounded by manure,
comes
into our manure,
setting us free
by Grace’s compassion.
Art, says Ernesto Tinajero, comes from the border of what has come before and what is coming next. Tinajero uses his experience studying poetry and theology to write about the intersecting borders of art, poetry and religion.
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