Dark Testament, Verse 8 by Pauli Murray - Poem for the Twenty-Third 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-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)

This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week,  2 Thessalonians 3:6-13


CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Dark Testament, Verse 8
Pauli Murray

SNIPPET:

Hope is a crushed stalk

Between clenched fingers

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Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author. Drawn to the ministry, in 1977 Murray became the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest and she was among the first group of women to become priests in that church. As a lawyer, Murray argued for civil rights and women's rights. In addition to her legal and advocacy work, Murray published two well-reviewed autobiographies and a volume of poetry.