Holy Week, by Francis J. Weeks

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Holy Week is a chapbook that moves through the liturgical arc of Holy Week and Easter, tracing sacred narrative through the textures of ordinary life. In these poems, biblical figures, apostolic encounters, and ritual moments are rendered alongside domestic scenes, fatigue, work, parenting and the quiet interruptions of daily routine. The result is a devotional work that resists separation between the sacred and the mundane, instead of revealing how holiness persists within the most ordinary conditions of lived experience.

Across fishermen, apostles, liturgical days, and post-resurrection morning, the chapbook constructs a theology of presence rooted in attention rather than abstraction. The poems do not seek to explain doctrine, but to inhabit it–-allowing scripture, ritual, and contemporary life to overlap in ways that are at once intimate, unsettled, and grounded. Holy Week ultimately reflects on incarnation not as distant history, but as something still unfolding in kitchens, streets, hospital rooms and early morning light.

Francis J. Weeks is a poet whose work explores the intersection of the sacred and the ordinary, often drawing on liturgical imagery, contemplative practice, and the textures of daily life. His writing moves between scriptural figures and contemporary domestic moments seeking the presence of the divine within the mundane rhythms of work, family, and attention.