# “Mary’s Song” by Luci Shaw

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- Published: 2014-12-15T12:00:18-06:00
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**Mary’s Song**
 By Luci Shaw

Blue homespun and the bend of my breast
 keep warm this small hot naked star fallen
to my arms. (Rest… you who have had so far to come.) Now nearness satisfies the 
body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies whose vigor hurled a universe. He sleeps whose
eyelids have not closed before.

His breath (so slight it seems
 no breath at all) once ruffled the dark deeps to
sprout a world. Charmed by doves’ voices, the whisper of straw, he dreams, hearing
no music from his other spheres. Breath, mouth, ears, eyes he is curtailed who overflowed
all skies, all years. Older than eternity, now he is new. Now native to earth as
I am, nailed to my poor planet, caught that I might be free, blind in my womb to
know my darkness ended, brought to this birth for me to be new-born, and for him
to see me mended I must see him torn.

–Luci Shaw, “Mary’s Song,” in [_Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802829872/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802829872&linkCode=as2&tag=toletaupanre-20&linkId=537WCSCNXPA7QGAL)(
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 29.

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