For, Lo! today a child is born in the East and her name is Rachel and his name is Mohamed. Her name is Azra and his name is David. His name is Kibwe and her name is Ngozi. His name is Krishna and her name is Yasmin. Her name is Lian and his name is Chao.
And farther East, across the Pacific which means peace, where East meets West and the circle is closed, her name is Maria and his name is Jesús .
Wise men honor them all.
May my the peace of the gods of their names be upon them.
Today A Child Is Born
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You know the butterfly lovers… Finally someone who knows more than Western literature. I love your blogpost.
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About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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