It makes me think of Mary leading the parade of those ‘left behind’. She has lost, in some way, all of what she once was celebrated for — wife, virgin, mother. Whatever holiness she has now isn’t that of the formal church or polite society. It’s intensely human and mortal. Her next big traditional holy event is ‘Assumption’ — going to heaven without dying. But this Mary, it seems, does die.
I also thing a bit, jumping the tracks entirely, to another festival of those outside of a majority culture and its connection to Mary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sarah
Another really powerful poem! I'm curious to think more the contrast between Mary's dark pain and the joyous and colorful beggar, drunkard, and vagabond. Are they joyous only because they are following Mary? What does the contrast say about their relationship?
It makes me think of Mary leading the parade of those ‘left behind’. She has lost, in some way, all of what she once was celebrated for — wife, virgin, mother. Whatever holiness she has now isn’t that of the formal church or polite society. It’s intensely human and mortal. Her next big traditional holy event is ‘Assumption’ — going to heaven without dying. But this Mary, it seems, does die.
I also thing a bit, jumping the tracks entirely, to another festival of those outside of a majority culture and its connection to Mary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sarah
Another really powerful poem! I'm curious to think more the contrast between Mary's dark pain and the joyous and colorful beggar, drunkard, and vagabond. Are they joyous only because they are following Mary? What does the contrast say about their relationship?