Tag: poetry
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Bishop gloved in freshness
In choked nave, peasants craning For better sight. Removal of stains Ewer draws puring mithril from a silver basin Subdeacons astride their Primate Christfire beacons gyring inside Like a Pilate, his hands washed Doused in rosewater in sight of the people Beneath God’s steeple Purified thereby prosphoron for problems probes Oil of catechumens Essence of…
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Edicts of Saint Benedict the germaphobe
St Benedict’s edicts Whom time repealed Archaic, mayhaps draconian Strictures governing shoe removal And hand hygiene amongst priests Whom breaded flesh grasp leavened Glory uproarious during the offertory Droning gospels like distant hornets Before the monstrance Iconic Ur-consciousness Golden incense censers furling Redolent furlongs afar Farflung by Boreas, well-lunged.
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Ritual Cleanliness
Stained to lavabo Hands lathered Unreluctant celebrant Ineluctable cleanliness Pleasant scent as of meadowed heaven Septuagint abeyant, bathing my hands Mouthing Psalm twenty five I will wash my hands in innocence O Lord so will compass altar thine I will be altered by it Change in the truly compliant Miracle upon belief reliant. Sighing in…
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Counting wounds
Brute unsutured Blood gushing Wound soon sewn shut Cards of mystical import strewn bedside trestle In my tarot’s taking, fate’s slung arrows slewing.
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Descendants
In a faraway land of palm a familiar drama hatching Abraham and sister-wife Sarah, later matriarch, made Isaac Thy descendants keeping my tenets Protecting my covenants shall be ascendant Dependent on none, let live in sunful plenty Far from the sinful bowl, empty Thou and thine art protected Shielded by favour and unseen angels Who…
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