Time opened like a drape.
\nLike rain suddenly ended.
\nLife, a radiant thread
\nwoven into dawn.
\nA beginning,
\nsuch as no beginning.
\nBefore a name,
\ngiven to day and night
\nValleys being flooded.
\nReaching of the sea.
\nPeeking mermaids, vanishing.
\nBirth time.
\nThe end of infinity.
\nLove, the flash of forever,
\ncoming and going.<\/p>\n
It is you, Mary!
\nThe apple of an orchard,
\nharvest of life itself.
\nBaskets of running and shouting,
\nthinking and saying,
\nstories beyond all forgetting.
\nGold and iron,
\na million times a million smiles,
\ntears,
\npoems,
\ntouchings.
\nSo much you
\nthat God hangs pictures in heaven
\nsaying,
\nshe\u2019s just begun,
\nHappy Birthday, Mary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Time opened like a drape. Like rain suddenly ended. Life, a radiant thread woven into dawn. A beginning, such as no beginning. Before a name,…<\/p>\n