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Previously unpublished.