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– BIBLICAL THEMES (shuffled like dreams) | Poem: Alasdair Gray © 2005 | |
astride toy donkey, jaunty snake on head. In
a jungle cave their drunken dad in bed. The prodigal returns to see – or become – what Seems a small stiff baby in a glass case or cot. Saint Francis, elephant masked, addresses two dangerously huge white pigeons without seeing them, beside lines suggesting King Herod and a bamboo shoot without necessarily being them. Sebastian, much punctured, between a branchless trunk and two people who branch like trees, is tied to them all by very thick snakes in an air like black and white crumbling cheese. Burning bush. In a frame of eyes Moses flees like a small boy with a mad dog at his tail. Crucifixion. Jesus skips off having detached at least one penetrating nail. |
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