CAI Arts
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by the CAI community
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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…
“March 25,” by Timothy E. G. Bartel
Annunciation to the cold spring morning
Annunciation to the waking city
Annunciation to the school-bound children
Annunciation to the pre-made plans.
Renunciation of the past distractions…
“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…