Lawrence
Hall, HSG
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Will There be Coffee
after the Crucifixion?
Everything’s
going to be discovered
And
understood in the course of time,
Only
we have to go on thinking
-Yevtushenko, “Zima Junction”
Not all are crucified, but all are wounded
We bring our gifts to the Altar; they fall apart
In secretly clinging to them for ourselves
Our claims to be defined by an era
But rotting corpses in a tangled wood
The celebrant elevates the Host
We lift unfocused eyes in grave pretense
Inattentive at the Wedding of worlds
The Mass is the central Act in Creation -
Not all are crucified, but all are wounded
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