The Man Who Walked on Water
Let’s not, love, say never again. We’ve reason
to have faith, to believe in bodies changing
shape, casting off the old life for an unimagined
new. Take, for example, your man who walked
on water and astounded his friends.
Word got round the local hacks, then Gay Byrne
screened footage live on The Late Late Show.
Proud at first, his family soon went exdirectory.
The begging letters, obscene
calls, a red-faced papal nuncio
bullying Latin at the door. The phenomenon,
they asked, was it congenital? That sleight
redistribution of weight as he rose
to his feet; the way his eyes looked past them
without warmth or recognition?
He became (or so some said) an amalgam
of early-hours hail and rain, then something
else again. His voice, so unlike him,
like a jay ratcheting song from out its throat;
his smile, a bare bulb in an empty room,
vouchsafing a soul left to burn all night.
Page(s) 3
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The