Exsultet

St. Mark's didn't reserve Molly the donkey in time, so we will have a pony (or some sort of cross-breed) this year for Palm Sunday.  No worries... we have already reserved Molly for 2015.  At staff meeting I found myself asking about who would sing the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil.  Would you like to do it? came the question.  So the Palm Sunday procession will be led by a pony, and I will sing in the Light of Christ at the Easter Vigil.  A new kind of Holy Week.  We will see where it goes from there.

Lent this year

Has meant the recalibration

Of my brain,

The welcome

Of a new kind of spring.

It has meant

The recognition

That Jesus will ride

A pony this year

Rather than

The requisite donkey

In the Palm Sunday procession.

Lent this year

Has meant the practice

Includes the descent

To dark places,

The ascent to the final light.

This year

At the end of Lent

I will exalt the Light

In the Mozarabic tone.

I may figure

What Resurrection might mean

Even to the tone

Of riding in

On a pony.