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Hibernal

Hibernal Poetry Anglican Theological Review 2021, Vol. 103(1) 93 Hibernal © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/993022 DOI: 10.1177/0003328621993022 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Late February, the darkness ecumenical beneath the night’s new moon. Another norther filigrees fallen leaves and windowpanes with a delicate, light frost. Why draw a line between the living and the dead on such a night, when the darkness within everything everywhere acknowledges itself? One stares through a window at the allusive, bituminous view, a ghost of breath upon the glass, once again the unborn child who, after six months in the womb, opens his eyes for the first time and finds the comprehensive darkness the mother holds within herself. TODD COPELAND Todd Copeland’s poems and essays have appeared in The Journal, High Plains Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Literary Imagination, among other publi- cations. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas, where he teaches at Baylor University. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Hibernal

Copeland, Todd
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 103 (1): 1 – Mar 24, 2021
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Poetry Anglican Theological Review 2021, Vol. 103(1) 93 Hibernal © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/993022 DOI: 10.1177/0003328621993022 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Late February, the darkness ecumenical beneath the night’s new moon. Another norther filigrees fallen leaves and windowpanes with a delicate, light frost. Why draw a line between the living and the dead on such a night, when the darkness within everything everywhere acknowledges itself? One stares through a window at the allusive, bituminous view, a ghost of breath upon the glass, once again the unborn child who, after six months in the womb, opens his eyes for the first time and finds the comprehensive darkness the mother holds within herself. TODD COPELAND Todd Copeland’s poems and essays have appeared in The Journal, High Plains Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Literary Imagination, among other publi- cations. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas, where he teaches at Baylor University.

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