Glowing logs and cool of night
As shepherds watch their flock
Rough assembly of tired men
habits of Cain’s stock
Marginalized and cast aside
Marked by field and sun
Nomadic pastoral men
Some old and some young
In her heart treasured up
Mary recalls the men
Who came to bow before her child
That night in Bethlehem
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