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March 30, 2013
Christ on Holy Saturday
Re: Deemed
by Mary Harwell Sayler
Consider the lily
of the moon.
Consider how
its spinning
does not toil.
Consider the lily-
shaped flames of hell
where the wretched
walk through water
on Christ’s back:
His face a lily
white with flame,
His tongue an
inferno for our
wrong words,
His eyes alight
with our cured souls,
His Body
our kind Host
of comfort.
© 2013, Mary Sayler, all rights reserved. “Re:Deemed” appeared on the Catholic Exchange website in 2007 and is included in the Kindle e-book, a Christian Poet’s Guide to Writing Poetry, available from Amazon.
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