La Pietà: A Villanelle for Good Friday, 2018 By Anne Hendricks, M.Ed. and Edited by John T. Hendricks, Ph.D.  (In Style of Dylan Thomas) The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace, To hold the silent Word upon her knee. The light of Easter hides its morning face. No lines of anguish mar his quiet face, From every debt of soul and flesh set free. The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace. She keeps her station in this hollow space, A monument to love’s dark decree. The light