21. Fiat Lux… by Chris Fewings
Nine months before Christmas – today’s the day when some churches celebrate when (according to Luke’s gospel) Gabriel the angel told Mary she was going to have a special son. When I wrote this poem, I was thinking of how dates in the church calendar fit in with the seasons of the year, particularly in medieval Britain and Ireland.
It’s not intended to be a declaration of any particular set of beliefs.
Fiat Lux secundum calendarium
In medieval England March 25th was reckoned as New Year, Equinox, and Annunciation
In the olden days the year began in equinox,
a point of balance between light and dark,
when spring exploded in a single cell,
finding a home inside a womb.