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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(“he said to Simon…You gave me no kiss, but from the time
she came in
she has not stopped kissing my feet.” Luke 7:45)
Overly dressed desire,
a paradise in skirts swishes
past the parched rectitude
of Simon to pour alabastered
oil and tears on his feet
there among the dinner guests.
Purchased beds and a denarius
for red lips, when broken,
see in the night what
Sterilized prayer shawls,
properly adjusted, miss
in the glare of high noon.
wholesale kisses on the stairs,
bought embraces in the back room
she cashed in for free love,
crashing Simon’s party,
spreading her hair in cascades
to dry the Master’s feet.
Simon is already forgotten
She is with the ultimate lover.
Kilian McDonnell, OSB Copyright ©2003 The Order of Saint
Benedict
Swift Lord You Are Not was published by St. John's University
Press in September, 2003 and is available from The Liturgical Press or
your local bookstores. |
