SANCTUS

SANCTUS

SANCTUS

the nightlight angels
          the Teasmade angels
                    the radiant angels bucking

then putting on again the habitual clothes
          the High Street angels
                    the battledress angels

the angels crossing their wings of tin
          taking grid-reference
                    from the angels with walkie-talkies

the interleaved angels
          the angels in reins
                    the angels with webcam stigmata

the mighty cog angels of braid and feather
          the pivot Jibreels
                    the treadmill seraphim

the swinging cross the swaying cross
          the rising cross of beaten iron
                    the angels with reluctant winches

the angels lost in clocks and watches
          daydreaming
                    the angels doubting angels
                    
the angels spitting breath
          the angels spitting vodka sorrow
                    the angels risking juice and water

the thinmilk Bodhisattvas
          the hushed, dumpling Bodhissatvas
                    the angels spitting beak-fed manna

the insomniac angels redrawing lines
          the angels carroting urban soil
                    the angels letting the sky lie fallow

the angels retreating from the woeful steel
          the molten chorale
                                        
                                        the angels in diaspora