Monday, 24 April 2023

The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn

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I put tags in


The Beaters


its final stanza

The lips that meet the wound can finally

Justify nothing – neither pain nor care;

Tender upon the shoulders ripe with blood.


Jesus and his Mother


it describes the Annunciation thus

He seemed much like another man,

That silent foreigner who trod

Outside my door with lily rod:

How could I know what I began

Meeting the eyes more furious than

The eyes of Joseph, those of God?

I was my own and not my own.


The Corridor


which plays on watching and being watched – one looks through a keyhole, the voyeur is seen...

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