First Things RSS Feed - D. S. Martin https://www.firstthings.com/author/ds-martin en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:12 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/ds-martin 60 Peregrine Falcon https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/03/peregrine-falcon https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/03/peregrine-falcon Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500 now thou but stoop’st to me
 —Ben Jonson

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]]> Shepherd https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/12/shepherd https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/12/shepherd Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0500 On clear cold nights when far stars speckle skies
& woodsmoke goes straight up & disappears
a dozen constellations to my eyes
are dull blurs when I think back through the years
to when the angel spoke to us that night
joined by the brilliant vast angelic choir
which overcame our senses with such light
& planted in each man the same desire
that prodded us till we reached Bethlehem
& led us to an unmarked cattle shed
We stumbled in and startled both of them
those parents by the baby’s manger bed
The townsfolk were astounded by our story
of uncouth shepherds blessed to see God’s glory

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]]> She Writes of Her Garden (June 1930) https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/06/001-she-writes-of-her-garden-june https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/06/001-she-writes-of-her-garden-june Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00:00 -0400 My Grandmother writes of her garden
wallflowers & cornflowers
from early April showers
like beautiful wounds healing across te bed
from blue to purple to dark pink
to light pink to white
& then geraniums in May
But she cannot see the geraniums

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