The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither

The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither

Author:Elizabeth Smither [Smither, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


for Beth

By midnight, All Saints’, you will be sleeping

the sleep of the drugged, wake in a grey light

and wonder where you are, touch your wound

think the bed lamp is a moon. Above,

where no eye can see, the saints

have done their handover like a shift

of nursing staff. Supremely confident

white-winged, white-coated who

on earth were often strained and queer,

devout in ways that lead to awful consequence

which now they float free from: extreme

to extreme reward. All Souls’ brings

your breakfast on a tray, the human scope.

Your wound will be dressed, you sit up

marvelling at the ordinary, the complete

that cannot be removed by surgery.



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