This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by James Green.
the other pieta
elsewhere
a mother’s son
hangs from a tree
branch bobbing
body swinging
she hugs his legs
still swelling
kisses his feet
and weeps such that
no one can comfort her
such that no one dare
disturb grief this utter
someone cuts the rope
with the body still
in his mother’s arms
and it splats on the ground
with a sound only
lifeless flesh can make
her lamentations echo
all the way
to Calvary
James…