John Tripp
on hearing r.s.thomas
under splash
of cockpit floods,
grey peninsula priest
in off-peg grey suit
limp red tie
spare anti-windbag
incantating like monk
cistercian bereft.
i yawn
bored
at the 15th tract,
exit worrying
oddly depressed.
how much of that
dislocated prayer
god's torture in public
was true?
i move quick to the stiff
reinforcement of gin.
sour bitter
unbending
country priest,
one of christ's
strange errand boys,
do you take weetabix dust
or porridge
to break your fast
or a dry windfall
welsh apple?
you see eternity in lightshaft
shooting through cloudgap
on a penful of sheep.
you defacate like me
cracked inside my skull
who sees at slow dusk
from the skeleton rot
the orange disc go down
across the nameless common.
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