Listen to Moore recite Brodsky's Star of the Nativity

Listen to Janet Conners interview Thomas Moore for her UnityFM program, The Soul-Directed Life in which Moore talks about his new book The Soul of Christmas. The program broadcast Thursday 8 December 2016. Watch Conners' post-interview video on her Twitter feed.

 At the beginning of the episode, Moore recites this poem by Joseph Brodsky:

Star of the Nativity
In the cold season, in a locality accustomed to heat more than
to cold, to horizontality more than to a mountain,
a child was born in a cave in order to save the world;
it blew as only in deserts in winter it blows, athwart.

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, their presents heaped by the door, ajar.
He was but a dot, and a dot was the star.

Keenly, without blinking, through pallid, stray
clouds, upon the child in the manger, from far away —
from the depth of the universe, from its opposite end — the star
was looking into the cave. And that was the Father’s stare.

December 1987