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muted hosannas JEFF CARTER

Author and photographer Jeff Carter at Masada |Photo by Major Noel Mason

To read muted hosannas is to enter the world as viewed through the eyes of a talented and meticulous writer/photographer. A wordsmith and a thoughtful thinker, Jeff finely crafts his poetry compelling the reader to appreciate the language of belief while challenging us to cogently navigate our way through our faith journey. Jeff’s photographic images provide a source of illumination to accompany his written word. muted hosannas is a profound and enlightened first book. —MAJOR KEVIN JACKSON

Frontier Press

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JEFF CARTER

muted hosannas

PART ONE: HOLY L AND Eating an Orange on Mount Carmel on Ash Wednesday | 5 Bless You, Benito, Bless You | 7 Oh, My Brothers, My Brothers | 9 Pray for the Peace of Bethlehem | 10 Graffiti and Prayers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre | 12 At the End of the Pilgrimage | 13

PART T WO: ADVENT TO PENTECOST O Shepherd | 17 Songs of the Servant | 18 How Shall I Rise? | 21 God is Cold | 23 Annunciation Day | 25 Blessed is Anyone Who Takes No Offense at Me | 26 Ever Refreshed | 28 Isn’t This the Blind Beggar ? | 29 Muted Hosannas | 30 Are You Yet in the Garden? | 32 We are Unprepared for Golgotha | 33 The Catabasis of Christ | 34 Lazarus Unseen | 35 The Locusts | 36 Ex Nihilo | 38 He Determines, Numbers, and Names | 39 The Day of the Lord | 41

PART THREE: HAIKU Holy Saturday | 45 1 Kings 19:11–12 | 47 Psalm 1:2–3, Psalm 8:2 | 49 Psalm 19:5, Psalm 126:4 | 50 Psalm 134 | 52 Proverbs 6:4–5, Ecclesiastes 1:7 | 55 Isaiah 11:1–9 | 56 Jeremiah 1:11–12, Jeremiah 8:20 | 57 Ezekiel 1:1, Daniel 7:9–10 | 58 Matthew 27:33, 45–46, Matthew 28:10 | 60 Mark 6:35–39, Luke 10:18 | 62 Luke 24:13–32, Luke 24:39–40 | 64 John 5:4 | 65 John 10:22–24, John 12:13 | 66 John 20:1, John 21:1–4 | 67 Revelation 1:16 | 68 Autumn Owl, Orange Flavored Tea | 70

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PART ONE: HOLY L AND Eating an Orange on Mount Carmel on Ash Wednesday | 5 Bless You, Benito, Bless You | 7 Oh, My Brothers, My Brothers | 9 Pray for the Peace of Bethlehem | 10 Graffiti and Prayers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre | 12 At the End of the Pilgrimage | 13

PART T WO: ADVENT TO PENTECOST O Shepherd | 17 Songs of the Servant | 18 How Shall I Rise? | 21 God is Cold | 23 Annunciation Day | 25 Blessed is Anyone Who Takes No Offense at Me | 26 Ever Refreshed | 28 Isn’t This the Blind Beggar ? | 29 Muted Hosannas | 30 Are You Yet in the Garden? | 32 We are Unprepared for Golgotha | 33 The Catabasis of Christ | 34 Lazarus Unseen | 35 The Locusts | 36 Ex Nihilo | 38 He Determines, Numbers, and Names | 39 The Day of the Lord | 41

PART THREE: HAIKU Holy Saturday | 45 1 Kings 19:11–12 | 47 Psalm 1:2–3, Psalm 8:2 | 49 Psalm 19:5, Psalm 126:4 | 50 Psalm 134 | 52 Proverbs 6:4–5, Ecclesiastes 1:7 | 55 Isaiah 11:1–9 | 56 Jeremiah 1:11–12, Jeremiah 8:20 | 57 Ezekiel 1:1, Daniel 7:9–10 | 58 Matthew 27:33, 45–46, Matthew 28:10 | 60 Mark 6:35–39, Luke 10:18 | 62 Luke 24:13–32, Luke 24:39–40 | 64 John 5:4 | 65 John 10:22–24, John 12:13 | 66 John 20:1, John 21:1–4 | 67 Revelation 1:16 | 68 Autumn Owl, Orange Flavored Tea | 70

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ANNUNCIATION DAY Even though the angels of the watch have seen our rough shedding of blood, our cycles of violence and despair, the mighty one has said: “Rejoice, oh favored ones; the Lord is with you.

Do not be heavy of heart; do not fear.”

But we are greatly perplexed, overwhelmed as we are by the rough violence the cycles of bloodshed that leaves us little more than despair.

“How can this be?

How can this happen?”

The mighty one replies: “Do not doubt and do not fear for nothing is impossible with God. The Holy Spirit will come upon you overshadow you with her wings and what is born in you will be holy.”

The angels may leave us, but the Lord is with us, within us.

Amen, may everything he said come true.

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ANNUNCIATION DAY Even though the angels of the watch have seen our rough shedding of blood, our cycles of violence and despair, the mighty one has said: “Rejoice, oh favored ones; the Lord is with you.

Do not be heavy of heart; do not fear.”

But we are greatly perplexed, overwhelmed as we are by the rough violence the cycles of bloodshed that leaves us little more than despair.

“How can this be?

How can this happen?”

The mighty one replies: “Do not doubt and do not fear for nothing is impossible with God. The Holy Spirit will come upon you overshadow you with her wings and what is born in you will be holy.”

The angels may leave us, but the Lord is with us, within us.

Amen, may everything he said come true.

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muted hosannas JEFF CARTER

Author and photographer Jeff Carter at Masada |Photo by Major Noel Mason

To read muted hosannas is to enter the world as viewed through the eyes of a talented and meticulous writer/photographer. A wordsmith and a thoughtful thinker, Jeff finely crafts his poetry compelling the reader to appreciate the language of belief while challenging us to cogently navigate our way through our faith journey. Jeff’s photographic images provide a source of illumination to accompany his written word. muted hosannas is a profound and enlightened first book. —MAJOR KEVIN JACKSON

Frontier Press

frontierpress.org

JEFF CARTER

muted hosannas