Airport Interrogations

Airport Interrogations

Joseph Jekel

O Being both far distant and most near, [...]
grant in this obscurity a little light.
—Scott Cairns, “Idiot Psalm 12”

O Bearer of Baggage, O Claimer of Life,
will you let me come as I am,
with carrion in my carry-on?

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Why is so little plain to me,
so little clear? And yet, why is
it all so plain to me, so bare?

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Belovéd Breacher, will you tell
me why You dove nosedown, so like
a kamikaze, even like
our own deliberate Icarus?

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Why is it that I hanker for you
to hover here and dream of you
gone, O Holy Nearness, gone?

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O my Unanswering Answer, have
these questions been correctly framed,
O Lord of allegéd light? And what
about answers to any of them,
O resurrected God of flight?

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Joseph Jekel
Teacher & Poet

Joey is a classical educator in Texas, and he has published poetry, articles, and reviews with Modern Reformation, The Mockingbird, Christianity & Literature, Themelios (The Gospel Coalition), and Christianity Today (forthcoming). He is also working on his M.A. in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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