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Looking forward comes more readily

to folk whose here and now is not so God-Almighty

crammed with all this getting and maintaining.

Even these Advent calendars and candles

can soon become another detour,

distracting from the blessed emptiness

that filled the Virgin’s Womb.

Is there a sacral stripping

can purge, prepare, accommodate,

make spare and elemental room for whatever

holy mystery there is to come?

Or will this omnipresent fatness

swallow up, consume, devour all keen anticipation,

transform our expectation into old, habitual doom.