Herein is Wonder

Herein is Wonder

By

J.Z Schafer

"Herein is wonder of wonders:
  he came below to raise me above,
  was born like me that I might become like him."

— “The Gift of Gifts,” of The Valley of Vision

Herein is Wonder:
That all the hungry begging-bowls
Of cooing prophecies are fed
Honey and milk and manna-gold.
Everyone is wrong about everything,
But that woman nursing her child
Wears Truth on her brow like a gem.

Herein is Wonder,
Nor have I spake in vain; this world's a flood
And these verses remember me a shaft
Of mountainous olive. Athena
Was born out of her father's head, but here
God of all ages drapes himself in rags;
This is the fulcrum of the universe.
Herein is Wonder, let all mortal lips
Keep silent and adore his birth.

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J.Z. Schaefer writes

Golgonooza

, which is a publication but also a flurry of gold-inlaid verse. You’ll be richer for reading him. — KL