Another Ash Wednesday
Thumb dipped deep
in the ashes of the palm
branches burned to black,
the priest stains our foreheads
on this day of prayer and penance,
abstinence and fasting.
Re-marked with the shape
of the cross we are called to
remember the two thousand
years of deaths and resurrections —
ashes to ashes, dust to dust —
to wait through the next forty days
for the darkness to lift,
our wounds to heal.
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