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Father, forgive

An inadequate poem after visiting St Michael’s Mount and encountering Lyn Constable Maxwell’s bronze of the Archangel in the island church. Continue reading

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Christmas Day 2023

The solidity of a sculpture, the fragility of glass, the intricacy of brushwork, the multivalency of language, the mystery of music, the bodies of dance, art become flesh: all of these are ways that we communicate with one another and seek to understand the human condition, even the divine. And God, who danced across the waters of creation and descended like a dove and painted the sky with stars and whispered loud words into the brains of prophets: this God who would stop at nothing to let us know that God is with us, became flesh, took on the language of love, of touch, of breath, of death, of life. Continue reading

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