"The real conflict is not between Christianity and 'nature', but between Christian principles and other principles in the control of 'nature'." (C. S. Lewis)
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Probably, and as night is night
I was certain to have dreamed (& torn out the antlers of) a first view of its beastly grin—
and crazy also to have burst into a rage of cold embers with trying, riled at first & then slowing to a trot:
and crazier still to have seen up close the dark sin such as it was —for it moved from the very spot & spun like Naomi!—
Not the easiest thing I’d ever seen: this stag without horns, and tail coiled nicely down its throat-- the sting!
And I followed like an ol' coot, & ran down that maze, racked with dark eyes & willow-lean— sin's dark lean