“Spoila,” by Joseph J. Capista (Poetry ’16)

2016 poetry alum Joseph J. Capista was recently featured in Thrush. Read an excerpt of “Spoila” below:

Spoila

  —​After John Lowden’s Early Christian and Byzantine Art

How do
you
picture
God
should
images
of Christ
show Him
as young
& beardless
with long
dark hair
& curling
beard
or as
a lamb

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2022-joseph-j-capista.html