Paul Groves
Testing For David
‘Secondary’ not ‘second rate’ they’ll tell you.
That’s reassuring.
‘Even saints have a league table’
some overbearing
ecclesiastical top brass will opine
but I don’t care.
Caradoc I was and Caradoc I remain:
let that be clear.
Oxford scientists are drilling holes
in my leg bones to take
samples for investigation. Will the hills
of Wales quake
with iconoclastic tremors
when these are found by analysis
not to be Dewi Sant’s femurs
but someone else’s?
Dissectors will find, though,
from osseous ash
that I was given to
the consumption of fish.
Caradoc the piscivore!
Caradoc the humble!
May every hagiolater
remember fish is a symbol
of the One True Saint:
Christ the Almighty.
Leave me now. I am content
with my place in history.
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