body

4 body  (from exhibition)

Sculpture - unfired clay

in the architecture of himself

this church the vaulted bone holding up his sky

the light streaming in staining the air crossing space

a diagonal narrative of colour of shape and source

the nativity the naivety the congregants in the nave

on his knees stouping supping the stirred water

running over this skull the cleansing of the confessional

a change of skin in the sacristy an alterity served upon the altar

flesh and blood on the hands held out here’s the steeple open the door

hands in the mud here’s the power the white and the grey to build a tower   to body a god