Memento Mori, a reminder of our own impending death, is an important theme of Lent …
As we remember on Ash Wednesday, and throughout Lent, humanity goes from ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
We remember our mortality with five poems for Lent on the theme of memento mori … Including poems by Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Mary Szybist, MORE
Dust to Dust
April Ossmann
Found in the book
Event Boundaries
SNIPPET:
Nevermind that keeping ashes
on the mantel feels ghoulish,
and comically impractical:
not just another thing,
a miniature memento urn, to dust,
but dust to dust—
….
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IMAGE CREDIT: Memento Mori “To This Favour”, oil on canvas painting by William Michael Harnett, 1879, Cleveland Museum of Art
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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