CAI Arts

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“Good Friday 2020,” “Holy Saturday 2020,” and “Easter Sunday 2020,” by Kris Yee

It is a little death to sit indoors
for weeks in weakness, measuring your sin,
to stare at what you are and who you’ve been
to hear the telltale thump beneath the floor.

I don’t–Oh, God—believe the Savior felt
the leaden weight of shame inside His gut.
A Son of Seth, He never knew just what
it meant to bring your best and fail. The guilt…

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Caravaggio’s Black Paint
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Caravaggio’s Black Paint

By Toby Klingsmith

I often wonder why we are so afraid of the dark. It has no substance, no power, and is in nearly every conceivable measure non-existent. It is a lack—physically, a lack of light, and spiritually, a lack of knowledge.

The cliché stands true: we fear what we do not understand. We fear what we cannot control. “Where am I going to go to school?” “Where am I going to live in two months?” “When will God heal my mother?” Because such spiritual darknesses frighten us, we begin to villainize them. But when we attempt to fight them, we are fighting nothing…

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“Holiness,” by Phillip Aijian

Seminarians, pastors, right reverends
and—of course—poets, queue around
more of those Maxfield Parrish clouds.
They approach the gates of St. Peter
with that practiced, professional impatience,
brandishing chapbooks and peer reviewed articles,
while some fuss over their ontological arguments
for the existence of God—though no one here
needs persuading—and second-guessing
their choice of font and citation style…

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