This week’s #preparingforSundaywithpoetry is informed not only by the Gospel and its parable of rejection, revenge, celebration, and their cycle, but inevitably by the images it calls up of contemporary violence, war, and burning cities; God save the innocents.
After the burning,
in ashes stirred by the tow
of a cautious breeze,
dawn steps with reverence
over the city so heavy in its fall;
over its delicate fragments
a mourning dove hovers, weary
yet unwilling to alight
upon her sorely singed feet.
over the water 