Wednesday 21 October 2009

'THE ESSENCE OF RELIGION IS THE PRESENT TENSE'

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That photo:
the two of us,

you holding me aloft
in a dangle of triumph.

In those days we
were round and hopeful,

joy thread tautly
on our spirit-level gaze.

‘Respect for you – that
I did not expect,

looking up
into those spry pupils;

a face so sharply
distinct from my own’.

Later on the scales would tilt,
splashing endless excessive

effusions of water
all over your brain.

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