harrows the saucer magnolia.
Joy sorrow
judgment redemption
joint the outstretched limbs
body the purpled flowering
now scourged by rain and wind
scattered, plastered to pavement and mud.
Christ beauty – bodied forth –
descends again to earth.
Yesterday the sweet season adorned by blossoms.
Today again the tree of wintered severities.
Long, O long! for summer, for leaves, for leaves upon leaves!
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