Corpse – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

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By Peter Ould Posted on March 29, 2013 Posted in Good Friday, Holy Week, Poetry 1 Comment Tagged with Bound, Corpse, Deceased, Flesh And Bones, Good Friday, Linen, New Birth, Sounds, Tiny Bundle, Water And Blood

Lay your child down Mary, bound by cloth and linen strips and laid in a box. A tiny bundle of flesh and bones descended in blood and filth and screaming for all the world to hear the sounds of new …

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Sepulchre

By Peter Ould Posted on October 6, 2010 Posted in Home Life, Poetry No Comments Tagged with Ascension, Ashes To Ashes, Child Benefit, Chromosomes, Corpse, Dwelling Place, Emotion, First Fruits, Forty Days, Holy Sepulchre, Impossibility, Lea Valley, Metaphors, Moses Basket, Mother Of My Children, New Birth, Nicodemus, Nourishment, Resurrection, Spring Dawn, Tiny Body, Valleys, Womb

I I have at home aÂ MosesÂ basket that lies empty, for the child that should have inhabited it is spread on the wind; ashes to ashes dust to Hertfordshire dust along the Lea Valley. Once he had a home a tight, …

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