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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> She listens, listens, holding her breath. -Denise Levertov<\/em><\/p>\n Creighton’s Online Ministries home page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, May 5 \u00a0 \u201cShe listens, listens, holding her breath. Surely that voice is his . . . ” Sometimes a poet finds a poem in a painting. \u00a0 \u00a0As Denise Levertov did in this 1620 painting by Diego Vel\u00e1zquez; … Continue reading
\nby Diego Val\u00e1zquez\u00a0 c.1620<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSurely that voice
\nis his\u2014the one
\nwho had looked at her, once,
\nacross the crowd, as no one ever had looked?
\nHad seen her?
\nHad spoken as if to her?
\nSurely those hands were his,
\ntaking the platter of bread from hers just now?
\nHands he\u2019d laid on the dying and made them well?
\nSurely that face\u2014?
\nThe man they\u2019d crucified for sedition and blasphemy.
\nThe man whose body disappeared from its tomb.
\nThe man it was rumored now some women had seen this morning,
\nalive?
\nThose who had brought this stranger home to their table
\ndon\u2019t recognize yet with whom they sit.
\nBut she in the kitchen,
\nabsently touching the wine jug she\u2019s to take in,
\na young Black servant intently listening,
\nswings round and sees
\nthe light around him
\nand is sure.<\/p>\n