We’ve spent
too much time
on semantics,
not dogmatics.
The semantics of salience
vs the dogmatics of death.
Why must everything be relevant,
new
when death has
always been with us,
constant
undying?
Do we dare to rediscover
death in our age
and somehow,
through that passage,
be resurrected to life?
Brother Maria Anthony Serval
of the Franciscan oblates of peace and justice
works among poor and marginalized communities in Denver
