Tearing the Curtain
By Matt Schur There’s a moment after the final breath a pause pregnant with eternity— still waiting for the next breath to come still expecting the lungs to expand and fill once more just as they always have. It’s one moment, made up of millions. Of course some are the memorable milestone moments but also the long-forgotten small stuff of everyday life the countless fleeting seconds that are born and pass away and are no less precious— no less holy. It is a mystery, the eternal instant between the final breath and the realization that it is finished but it is in that mysterious moment of moments that the temple curtain is forever torn in two. Matt Schur is the author of Imperfectly Perfect (2023) and Cross Sections (2021) and has had poetry published in Valiant Scribe Literary Journal , Unlikely Stories , and Cathexis Northwest Press . He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he serves as a hospice chaplain and where he and his wife have raised their two kids. Matt also preaches at a...
