Chrysalis
Beneath the canopy of heaven
unprotected, true heirs
of kings and sometime prophets
faithful, keep suspended watch.
Hidden from those who trust
in wood and stone,
they rest where father Jacob’s
angel-ladder touches earth.
The air is thick and shimmers
with a singing weight,
encounters down the ages across realms;
yet, even so, the messenger of
glory and of peace
elicits fear: for shepherds know
that none can bear the news
for which they wait, and long to hear.
Nevertheless, the time has come
to shed the shepherd-skin,
as Shepherds, blinking,
push their way into the light.
Biblical references to shepherds: the Patriarchs, King David, the prophet Amos, God himself.
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