Linda Pastan- The Death of the Self - Poem for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 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 Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C can be found here)
The Death of the Self
Linda Pastan
to accompany the lectionary reading: Philippians 3:4b-14
SNIPPET:
Like discarded pages
from the book
of autumn, the leaves
come trembling down
…
Linda Pastan is an American poet from a Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Her most recent collections of poetry include Insomnia, Traveling Light, and A Dog Runs Through It. (via Wikipedia).