A ROSARY FROM JASNA GORA
By Lawrence Hall
Word count: 102
Rating: G
Summary: A poetic description of a wooden rosary.
For, as always, Our Lady of Czestochowa
and for Kirk Briggs
A little string of wooden gift shop beads
Each bead a hymn along the pilgrimage
From Nazareth to Bethlehem to—to us
Praying again the Angel’s greeting-song
A hymn of the universe sung and told
And written* by Saint Luke upon a board
From the Table where all have come to share
Both feast and Feast, until the world shall end
O Lady of the Mountain Bright, please bless
Us through these humble wooden gift shop beads
*In Orthodoxy an ikon is said to be written