Good Friday 1997

Posted by Jeffrey Essmann | Mar 9, 2022 | Poetry |

This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Gerard Garrigan, O.S.B.

Good Friday 1997

Blood red cardinal
on a scourged and broken asphalt road
beneath a dark and darkening sky
some time past noon, not quite three
in a moment he’ll fly
but first must die

Gerard Garrigan, O.S.B. is a monk of Saint Louis Abbey. More of his poetry is available free of charge by e-mailing him at: frgerard@priory.org.

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Jeffrey Essmann

To submit poetry to be considered for the Catholic Poetry Room, visit our submission guidelines page. Jeffrey Essmann is Poetry Editor for IntegratedCatholicLife.org and always searching for the best Catholic poetry from today's poets as well as those of the past. Jeffrey is an essayist and poet living in New York. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, among them America Magazine, Dappled Things, the St. Austin Review, Pensive, Agape Review, Edge of Faith, Grand Little Things, and The Road Not Taken. He is a Benedictine oblate of Mt. Saviour Monastery and a certified Catechist in the Archdiocese of New York.