Veritas Incarnatus
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Gentle, gentle from the flaming door;gentle, from the sword-gilt gate;fashioned in the dragon’s antique roar;begotten in the black bull’s hate.
Risen through the white nomadic sands;blazoned on the bright mercuric screen;twisted under gypsies’ oaken hands;whispered by the dark world’s queen.
Finished as it filled the musty cave,blurted red the black and hallowed tree,saved the dove, the lamb, the slave,and came to Be. [End Page 126]
Father John-Julian, OJN, is an Episcopal priest, monk, and author of nine books. A Wisconsin native, he served parishes in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Connecticut and was the founding Dean of New York’s “Seminary of the Streets.” He has taught at the Universities of Rhode Island and Connecticut. In 1985 he founded the contemplative Order of Julian of Norwich. His first collection of poetry—Eyes Have I That See—will be published by Paraclete Press in 2015. johnjulianojn@sbcglobal.net
