{"id":136607,"date":"2025-04-19T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136607"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T19:49:08","slug":"denise-levertov-for-holy-saturday-ikon-the-harrowing-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136607","title":{"rendered":"Denise Levertov for Holy Saturday&#8211;Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">That done, there must take place that struggle<br>no human presumes to picture:<br>living, dying, descending to rescue the just<br>from shadow, were lesser travails<br>than this: to break<br>through earth and stone of the faithless world<br>back to the cold sepulchre, tearstained<br>stifling shroud; to break from <em>them<\/em><br>back into breath and heartbeat, and walk<br>the world again, closed into days and weeks again,<br>wounds of His anguish open, and Spirit<br>streaming through every cell of flesh<br>so that if mortal sight could bear<br>to perceive it, it would be seen<br>His mortal flesh was lit from within, now,<br>and aching for home.<br><br><\/pre>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/ikon-harrowing-hell\">Read it all<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mikhail Nestorov, Christ&#39;s Descent into Hell, c.1895 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VBcXNdPIsJ\">pic.twitter.com\/VBcXNdPIsJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Solas (@solas_na_greine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solas_na_greine\/status\/1913602912065933489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That done, there must take place that struggleno human presumes to picture:living, dying, descending to rescue the justfrom shadow, were lesser travailsthan this: to breakthrough earth and stone of the faithless worldback to the cold sepulchre, tearstainedstifling shroud; to break<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136607\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136647,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136607\/revisions\/136647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}