Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️ on Nostr: A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it ...

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast* its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

*Yeats' turkey