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When it got dark, the landscape inverted further, the white orbs of the parking lot’s pole lights suspended below me like a raft of floating moons, illuminating tall stray flowers on the edges of the asphalt.

Christ’s resurrection is the lodestone of my life, my hope, my faith. And the early church had a rich symbolism for this: the resurrection took place on the first day of the week, which was also the day after the seventh day—the eighth day. This Sunday of all Sundays represents a new creation, eternity breaking into time. The eighth day represents eternity contrasted with the time of this world.

Triangles have a special place in her abstract work, sometimes commenting on the politics of space, such as geodesy and the Orientalist map-making undertaken by colonial powers.

We can’t love

an abstraction. So, I begin with my cats.

This much is certain
to me: Prayer ends up
somewhere, like the bright
death throes of a star

When the day of commencement came, I treated it like any other day.

Blasphemers in taverns slurred sacred hymns and the lame lay bellowing on the steps to shrines where beggars repented prideful sins.