{"id":2142,"date":"2016-12-22T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:27","slug":"dec-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/22\/dec-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday \u00a0December 22 \u00a0\u201cI have found you in the story again\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joy Harjo has written a new book this fall, \u201cConflict Resolution for Holy Beings.\u201d \u00a0 A young friend &#8212; living in immediate grief when one of his soul friends died suddenly, age 24, while out running\u00a0\u2014 he, \u00a0one of\u00a0a close group of young friends living this same loss \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0pointed me toward this new poem from one of my oldest soul friends.\u00a0 \u201cFall Song,\u201d is a new song alongside \u201cO Antiphon 6: \u00a0O Rex Gentium,\u201d one of the oldest writings that have appeared in the Work Day\/Hard Time poetry list. \u00a0Joy Harjo and the anonymous medieval artist both touch vulnerable contact points that require tenderness to work their mysteries in a demanding world.<\/p>\n<p>Best to read both poems out loud, with pauses. \u00a0\u00a0Blessings this 22nd of December, the day when, in our northern hemisphere, daylight begins to tip a little bit longer after touching its deepest darkness yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Post &#8211; \u00a0Joy Harjo,\u00a0&#8220;Fall Song&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a dark fall day.<br \/>\nThe earth is slightly damp with rain.<br \/>\nI hear a jay.<br \/>\nThe cry is blue.<br \/>\nI have found you in the story again.<br \/>\nIs there another word for \u2018\u2018divine\u2019\u2019?<br \/>\nI need a song that will keep sky open in my mind.<br \/>\nIf I think behind me, I might break.<br \/>\nIf I think forward, I lose now.<br \/>\nForever will be a day like this<br \/>\nStrung perfectly on the necklace of days.<br \/>\nSlightly overcast<br \/>\nYellow leaves<br \/>\nYour jacket hanging in the hallway<br \/>\nNext to mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/shirts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1670\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/12\/shirts.jpg\" alt=\"shirts\" width=\"180\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>poem by Joy Harjo &#8211; Nov 13, 2015<br \/>\nThe New York Times Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day, the first day a little longer and the sun a little higher in the sky for us who live in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>Antiphon #6 \u00a0 &#8220;O Rex Gentium&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O Leader of many peoples,<br \/>\nO Leader desired by many peoples<br \/>\nO Corner Stone who holds such different peoples together<br \/>\nCome and save us human beings whom you formed out of the earth\u2019s clay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/KingOfTheNations.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/KingOfTheNations.jpg\" alt=\"KingOfTheNations\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/KingOfTheNations.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/KingOfTheNations-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To listen to the Antiphon sung in Gregorian Chant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UwDdEQCtIF4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UwDdEQCtIF4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday \u00a0December 22 \u00a0\u201cI have found you in the story again\u201d Joy Harjo has written a new book this fall, \u201cConflict Resolution for Holy Beings.\u201d \u00a0 A young friend &#8212; 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