Anima Christi

Anima Christi

Christopher Snook

Now say something like
the way it was not by
any means necessary
or the harsh division of the world
into mortar and pestle
the grinding or being ground

but what the russet Autumn remembers
and the pastel Spring – the zero summer
buried in the cold fastness of tumbling
towers, the fractured air, a bomb before
the ripening somewhere behind the eyes

say something like the old songs –
Priam and Achilles’ hands
the singing of lyre and bow
the secretly hidden hiddenness of
kenning the lost ways, the whale road,
the yellow brick all the way to
lava me
absconde me
inebria me

say the something still being
born
but not without her or you
or the way the world ends
sicut erat in principio

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Christopher Snook
Writer & Poet

Christopher is a member of the Faculty of Classics with Arabic and Religious Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The author of numerous articles in the history of theology, his poetry has appeared in Canadian, American, and Australian journals. His first collection, Tantramar Vespers, was published in 2018.

Photography by Phil Kallahar