Religion

Quote

Poem

“They threaten / To let me through to a heaven / Starless and fatherless, a dark water.”

Sheep in Fog

“Herr God, Herr Lucifer / Beware / Beware.”

Lady Lazarus

“I am a nun now, I have never been so pure.”

Tulips

“It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them

/ Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”

Tulips

“Even the newts are white, / Those holy Joes. / And the fish, the fish– / Christ! they are panes of ice”

Nick and the Candlestick

“A vice of knives, / A piranha / Religion, drinking / Its first communion out of my live toes”

Nick and the Candlestick

“You are the baby in the barn”

Nick and the Candlestick

“The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God, / Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility.”

The Moon and the Yew Tree

“Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky – /Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection. / At the end, they soberly bong out their names.”

The Moon and the Yew Tree

“Inside the church, the saints will all be blue, / Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews, / Their hands and faces stiff with holiness.”

The Moon and the Yew Tree

“Marble-heavy, a bag full of God”

Daddy

“Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.”

The Arrival of the Bee Box