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Poems

Small things in the cathedral

26 February 2015

11:30 AM

26 February 2015

11:30 AM

A place to see the little things
between the monuments and tombs. As in
the chapel of St Gabriel, a pencil.

Here they are, behind the obvious.
Next to the chapter house, a cupboard
with a bowl, four toilet rolls.

How small things quietly wait, make us
forgivable. Inside the vestry,
just inside the door, an iron.

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