The Miraculous Birth
A Poem
Originally published in the New York Times Magazine, December 23, 1984. Published in a limited edition in 1986 by William B. Ewert with woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Reprinted in The Time Traveler: Poems.
Edited and arranged by Robert Friedman
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