The Walk

Orisson

Antiphon 1 – St Michael on the Pyrenees

This is the Door of the Jubilee of Forgiveness:
Whoever passes through obtains absolution.

Orreaga / Roncesvalles
8th May 2019
Our Lady of Pompeii

Song 1 – Roncesvalles’ Baptism

The wind rips everything apart:
dumps your words into valleys
slams your dreams into mountains
undresses you
cleanses you
scuffs you
skins you
crafts you anew.

Erroibar / Valle de Erro

Antiphon 2 – The Road I

How can it be? You designed it yourself, but don’t know where you’re going?

Don’t you know that every step reveals a new path?

Larrasoaña
9th May 2019

Song 2 – Larrasoaña Shrine

Everything is shut:
no voices or barking to be heard
(except for the pilgrims’ crippled moans)

Whiteness fills everything with awe.
There’s the Ark of the New Covenent
locked up in every shrine
as the Patriarchs pledged
in the shadows of the Pyrenees:

inebriation guards
the Navarese dream.