Dancing Dust |
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Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000) |
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Village eucharist |
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The priest moves south to north and north to south From AD 1 to now and back again, Chalicing the chancel; The woodlouse isopodically south to north Walks from Devonian to Pleistocene And still keeps on. The scuffed black brogues just miss the small crustacean This time, and it finds the chink, the tunnel Into the churchyard, Where thousands of its kindred scuttle grey stones That fadingly remember a few dozen Bipeds in graves. Undated. post 1977 |