Prayer by Faisal Mohyuddin - Poem for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Luke 18:9-14
Prayer
Faisal Mohyuddin
SNIPPET:
you cleanse the uncovered
regions of your body
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Faisal Mohyuddin is an award winning writer, educator and artist. He is the child of immigrants from Pakistan and his work explores themes of grief, separation, Islamophobia, and what it means to be displaced (via northwestern.edu).