Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother\'s breast, the steam out of the ox\'s nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar. --from "Star of the Nativity" Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as "a Christian by correspondence," endeavored from the time he "first took to writing poems seriously," to write a poem.
He was but a dot, and a dot was the star.
Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother\'s breast, the steam out of the ox\'s nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar