Exalted Heart of the center-pure indwelling dignity; Succession of days/ Spirit stand with me again/Amid Love’s center, within this Childhood clock picture/ I see bedroom ghosts upon your wall/Single poem of our every dreaming O to touch the page/ O these words/ your Heart/as every tender blessing is forever from above. Snow light/First Advent/ thawing vision/ memory thrown fronds amid stamens rhyming- Innocence, innocence, blood reduction of a still fallen fear/One promise/ How vast this silence to behold us, endlessly again. 12/25-27/1997 Revised 11/4/2005 From Advent (Alpha) Photograph by D.G. Kelly 1974 Digital Art by T. Byron K. 2010