A Memory in Sweat and Grace In Nuremberg, summer pressed its full weight down - thick as iron, bright as judgment - onto a rugby pitch ringed by trees too wise to move.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:5 (ESV)
Preface This poem was inspired by Octave Tassaert’s painting Destitute Dead Mother Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter (c. 1850).