Poem for Second Sunday of Lent 2026

You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.

— “Postscript” by Seamus Heaney¹

NOTES:
1) Seamus Heaney, “Postscript,” July 21, 2019, Poetry Daily, accessed March 1, 2026, https://poems.com/poem/postscript/
2) Malcolm Guite, “WEEK 2 Deepening the Life of Prayer,” March 16, 2025, malcolmguite.wordpress.com, accessed March 1, 2026, https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/week-2-deepening-the-life-of-prayer-10/