The Miraculous Birth

A Poem

Dec 13, 2022

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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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