Fr Tom Holahan

Heart Fiat

Arts & Literature

“In Heart Fiat Desmond Kon roams the interior and exterior world as one. The spiritual and religious are here, but these realms are passages to the mysteries of our tangible existence: the “real presence” becomes the conviction, “now I begin”; the wedding at Cana prompts Kon to ask, who is “worth my lifetime of longing.” Elsewhere an account of the challenging marriage of a folk artist evokes a meditation on Saint Gertrude, who “is safe in the monastery of her own formation.” If you’ve thought the spiritual can be safely locked away, these poems will make you think again.”