Sunday, 23 February 2020

#54 - ekphrastic - John Perceval's 'Nativity 1'








54
23.2.2020
ekphrastic
John Perceval’s ‘Nativity 1’ (1947)

on oxen watch
with angel over

gossip in windows
how a rumour starts

roof thatched through
with rain aghast

monster playful
ladder light

in hay for glow
horns can’t be helped

long ears thrown back
by donkey calm

so many hands to it
and the wooded world

all falling to this nakedness
the Christing of this world 








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