Like this Auschwitz barbed-wire rosary”
clipped with teeth and finger twisted,
black-blood-stained, rain-encrusted,
thorny, skin-pricking, motherly-misery-
pregnant, passed from hand to bone-ripped
ashen hand, brand of traitors
to the empire, fire in chokehold chambers
sparking visions of seraphic coal-tipped
tongs, rag-hidden prayer
ridden pearl
pruned from Israel’s bondage, now a
sign of our ingrafted bough, the
mangled laughingstock of the world”
Like this, dear son, is the whole of the blessed
and jubilant faith that we confess.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
Justice for Alito (ft. Mollie Hemingway)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Mollie Hemingway joins…
The Education of Cole Tomas Allen
This essay will appear in the upcoming June/July issue of First Things. The most terrifying and telling…
How the SPLC Got into America’s Classrooms
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been indicted for a variety of crimes. To laymen, the…
