Before All Things, by Tania Runyan - Poem for the Twenty-Fourth 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 Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Colossians 1:11-20
Before All Things
Tania Runyan
SNIPPET:
The day Christ died a record-long freight train
barreled through the Rollins Road crossing.
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Tania Runyan is the author of the poetry collections Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, Delicious Air (which was awarded Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature in 2007) and How to Read a Poem, an instructional guide based on Billy Collins’s “Introduction to Poetry”. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Image, Books & Culture, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Christian Century, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, and the anthology In a Fine Frenzy. (via patheos.com)