
Poems
Hooked
Date added: 29/05/2020
HOOKED
The great fish vomits Lazarus:
Jaws of Death, with bated breath,
Await the Lord of heaven and earth -
And that’s the catch.
But who is caught?
Life is swallowed up in death:
Death is hooked, wound up, wound in,
And that’s the end of him.
© Graham Kings, Nourishing Connections (Canterbury Press, 2020).
Previously unpublished.
© 2025 Graham Kings / Melchior