I am eating a large slice of three-day-old bread, sitting in my room with the fan turned up in a feeble attempt to drown out the construction noise in the apt above mine, and thinking ofChrist, scourged, bloody, exhausted, thirsty, being nailed to a cross on Mt. Calvary. I’m also contemplating how I can complete […]
THE CRUCIFIXION
THE OCTAVE OF EASTER: THIS GOD WHO LIES IN WAIT
Who among us does not find the inn of Emmaus to be a familiar abode? Who has not walked this road one evening when all seemed lost? Christ died in us. They had taken him from us: the world, philosophers and scholars, our passion. There was no more Jesus for us on the earth. We […]
BODIES
Bodies disappear like ghostsbecome invisibleuntouchable absentdiscovered in bathtubsfainting on streetsswaying on stretchersdeparting with a photograph in handfreed from a watch a wedding ring an umbrellabeautiful as during a nuptial nightnakedtruly faithful this time for everfriends with silencethat is with things in themselvesreturning through the side door of a dreamsuddenly omnipresentscreaming without soundfrom inconsolable longing —Anna […]