Joseph J. Capista
Spolia
—After John Lowden’s Early Christian and Byzantine Art
How do
you
picture
God
should
images
of Christ
show Him
as young
& beardless
with long
dark hair
& curling
beard
or as
a lamb
what
shape
should
a church
be what
form
occasions
prayer
when
you look
up how
will you
ever
know
the hand
of God
from blue
eternal
sky?
Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty (Ohio University Press, 2019), selected by Beth Ann Fennelly for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, his poems have appeared in Agni, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, and Ploughshares. He teaches at Towson University and lives with his family in Baltimore.
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—After John Lowden’s Early Christian and Byzantine Art
How do
you
picture
God
should
images
of Christ
show Him
as young
& beardless
with long
dark hair
& curling
beard
or as
a lamb
what
shape
should
a church
be what
form
occasions
prayer
when
you look
up how
will you
ever
know
the hand
of God
from blue
eternal
sky?
Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty (Ohio University Press, 2019), selected by Beth Ann Fennelly for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, his poems have appeared in Agni, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, and Ploughshares. He teaches at Towson University and lives with his family in Baltimore.
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