This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jenna Funkhouser.
Holy Week
I.
this is the night
we walk backwards
into blindness
into silence
this is the daybreak
we bear unrecognized
hosannas
on our burning tongues.
II.
it is walking
into a grave
within oneself
entering
this cavern within
the ribs
it is the shouting
of men gone mad
with the world
the tearing
of something
irrevocable.
III.
you must let yourself
be pierced
to be healed
you must accept
the lancing
of this…