23 April 2009

Some Quasimodogeniti Poetry

that my internet acquaintance and friend, Pr. Harvey Mozolak, has written and given me permission to share:

Easter 2
John 20. 19-31

unnailed
Harvey S. Mozolak

a door is an entrance
and barred protection
he was both
as he stood among them
his hands and side
had taken wounds
their guarding grace
the scars now locks
that kept them free
in the joy of greeting
his words breathed
peace and sending
the hands they handle on the latch
his feet the threshold to the new
supporting through the blessing
lintels of his limbs and heart
to share and touch
beyond the wind sprung
opening



Easter 2

didymal verse
Harvey S. Mozolak

i.
seen and believed

hands that could only clasp the cold
piercing of death's hold
the feet that failed finally
to lift the lungs to breath
the side that opened
to allow the point of hate
to rip the heart to sate
in water and blood
touch Thomas

ii.
and did he touch?

the cross a hammer
the resurrection its claw
cleft upon the coffin
Thomas' fingers
a curved questioning fulcrum



Easter 2

marked
Harvey S. Mozolak

was the wound smooth and well-healed
in heaven's perfection
polished under pressure
like a jewel for millennia
yet only worn a week

or crusted with caked blood
crowning the scar
in a mounted remembrance
of the coarse made plain

or still tender without pain
places where the earth's suffering
entered God?

the peace of knowing him
identifying the living body
by the scars of death
probes Thomas
and notches a hold



Easter 2

appearance
Harvey S. Mozolak

they hid from the cross
ran in fear from the grave
now in terror they lock the door
set a scar to bar being wounded
with a peace
that can be touched

even the walls bleed belief
joy joists earth to heaven
at the crucifix nailed in sight



Easter 2
John 20. 19-31

trembling soul
Harvey S. Mozolak

did Thomas touch?
he was offered
a clinical probe
a psychological crutch
a spiritual splint
for his own scars
and impaled hope
or did he hug
and embrace
the rising belief
that beat
from his heart
to his finger tips?

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