Natalie Diaz - Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation - Poem for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany, 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 4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C can be found here)
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation
Natalie Diaz
to accompany the lectionary reading: Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)
SNIPPET:
Angels don’t come to the reservation.
Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things.
Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing—
death. And death
eats angels, I guess, because I haven’t seen an angel
fly through this valley ever.
…
Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She has received several awards, most recently the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is also a language activist and associate professor at Arizona State University. (via Wikipedia)