Readings that Wrestle
By now, in Week 5 of the Hidden Cathedral Poetry Celebration, you know that while the poems we share are not all explicitly religious they do excel in spiritual sinew……
Hananiah Harari, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1936, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
……meaning the poems have an ability to wrestle with reference to God’s presence and the problems of being human, and that they succeed somehow as Jacob did, whose story is remembered in this second poem by Mischa Willett
This second poem by Andrew Frisardi takes flight with sounds that animate the poem and propel it forward
In Burial in Holy Week by Sally Thomas, God gives and receives in one one dread day, still in the world of sound and color
Animate in another way, here is an amusing short poem by Gail White on Julian of Norwich