Lawrence Hall
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                   Palm Sunday without Air-Raid Warnings

Palm Sunday is easy for the rest of us
A procession with palms from the parking lot
Praising God through an asphalt Jerusalem
A Subaru on His right hand, a Dodge on His left

Palm Sunday is easy for the rest of us
The front of the procession out of tune with the back
Or is it the other way around? Someone’s MePhone
Beeping during the Elevation - Catholics, eh

Palm Sunday is easy for the rest us -
No burning streets, no screaming wounded, no death

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

                               Palm Sunday Well-Sanitized

There is social distancing in Jerusalem
Mostly among Romans and Greeks and Jews
Who don’t much like each other anyway -
How is this day different from all other days? 1

This year there is no parking-lot procession
That’s good; the timing of the hymn in front
Never matches the timing ‘way in back
And the mail-order palms are sanitized

What hosannas this season, you may well ask:
Wave the virus and proclaim, “Wear your mask!”


1 Cf. The Seder


(This is only a bit of wry humor; good hygiene is always a matter of caritas in protecting others as well as one’s self.)

there is beauty and peace in palm trees
as there is loneliness in a summer garden.