Eternal Moment on a Calm Palm Sunday Morning, by John R. Adcox, tells the story, in blank verse, of a mystery, of a wanderer through time who seeks answers to troubling questions.

The poem’s story begins in the nave of an Episcopal church on a calm Palm Sunday morning, where the Passion of Christ, as presented in the Gospel of St. Matthew, is dramatized in the liturgy, with clergy and congregants participating. As the speaker of the poem listens, he finds himself carried—in visions, dreams, and imagination—into the past, caught up in moments of this crucial week as they unfold.