Luminous Darkness

<p>The Seven cycles of poetry--rooted in each of Christ's Seven Last Words--intend a unified philosophical and theological dwelling. Here the poet begins from the irresistible force of finality the very wager of existence itself and makes herself dialogic magnet working to draw in and draw out the core of the human and divine relationship. On Good Friday we are taught the poetry of our Lord. It is an inlaying of our words imbedded in the Word a submersion into the delectation anguish thirst neediness ecstasy and the surrender of the dying God. </p><p></p><p>If that first and often lasting invitation into faith not faith in general but this faith and this Person Christ is given to us through Beauty it is the monumental task of the artist to help us experience the Beautiful to recover Beauty in our lives. Each of the cycles of poems pertaining to the Seven Last Words will be accompanied by art by co-author and artist Carol Scott. Here the unabashedly Beautiful reanimates those lost wells of experience so that we can once again feel the poetizing Word enfleshed Word made flesh the Word of our flesh human and divine. </p>