Void space and darkness
Before the universe was formed
Mysterious knot of nots
Untie-able
Before the beginning
Heavy breath
Gently brooding
In waiting
The virgin chaos
And deep waters
Hover and begin
The ordering of all things
borders set
Heavens and earth
Sea and land
Mount and valley
Life
And death
A stranger introduced
Deformation
The Returning void,
Formless darkness,
Deeps, and waters
And so again
Upon a promise
The spirit moves
To reorder all things
To banish death
and the darkness it brings
A new beginning
And gentle moving
This time upon
the virgin womb
The rest of the poems from Rusten Harris’s Advent series on Moss Kingdom:
Incarnation, Christmas Eve, Kings, Some Kind of Glory, Chains, Gifts, Quotidian Couple, A Thousand Lights, Eve & Mary, Treasured Up, Christmas, Winter Staves, The Glorias, Cherubim, Joseph, Strange Redeemer, Womb, Magi, Temple Trough, Advent, Lord’s Day, Far as the Curse is Found, Jubilee, The Massacre of the Innocents, Liturgical Time
Other Advent poems on Moss Kingdom:
December 21: an Advent poem for the Winter Solstice, Of Edmund and Aslan, Tiptoe Hope, The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats