Crown: skull-funnel open for falcon’s burnished wings, pressing heaven into pharaoh’s mind. Crown: gilded skullhouse gate with bars of gold to hold fast our hoard, trapping us in its bony world. Crown: prised-open casket leaving scar of mind’s yielding, skull-bone softening to infant’s font, opening. -Tom Ravetz
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As this reading is for Epiphany, 6 January, and the Sunday after, my next post will be on 10 January.
With very best wishes for 2026,
Tom Ravetz
