The Hinge by Cynthia Cruz - Poem for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A
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 A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Romans 8:6-11
The Hinge
Cynthia Cruz
Found in:
How the End Begins
SNIPPET:
…
We are talking
About the Resurrection.
We are walking dead
Into it
Leaving the world and its sweet chorus
Of horrors behind.
…
Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary German American poet. She is the author of seven published poetry collections, two works of cultural criticism, and has published work in several literary journals and magazines. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. (via Wikipedia).