Tag: holy week

Livid * – a poem of Holy Saturday

In the night after Holy Saturday - an angel. But before?An original icon in the collection of Charles LaFond Livid: A poem of Holy Saturday Livid bruises cover your still body. Plums. Blues. The resulting purple. The garden. The arrest. The savage beatings. And then in that cold, stone tomb...

Mary’s Other Song

Crucifixion Bas Relief #24: "With Rose". Stoneware, Cone 6, Rose Crystalline glaze, unglazed forms. Carved Bas Relief, 16.5 x 6 inches, Charles LaFond, artist. Lent, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary’s Other Song If I hold my hand against the wood, flat, like this I can feel your breathing from above....

hospitality and the abdomen

The human abdomen can be so lovely.  The Crucifixion Bas Relief, Clay with wax resist. April 13, 2019. Preparation for Good Friday firing. Charles LaFond, Potter We, each of us, have a human body.  We can all agree to begin there. It may be young or old, sick or well,...

the Good of Glory on a Friday

This image of Jesus on the cross comes from an icon I found in a dusty little shop underground in Istanbul.  It is Russian, late 19th century and is round, about the size of a large dinner plate. I chose it because I was on my way to be a...

Fluent in Thunder – a poem for Holy Week

  Fluent In Thunder It is hard to imagine what She felt that week. She covers the planet in green, brown, blue and every color of the rainbow-reminder. She waves as wheat. She swoons as flower. She bears the massive responsibility of air as tree. She waits as water. She...

by whom?

In Holy Week we are reminded that we, who claim to follow Jesus, are capable of betrayal.  And that betrayals come in all shapes and sizes, all motivations and permutations. They can be very small but cut over and over like a thousand paper cuts just as easily as they...