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Pat Boran
The Prayer-Jar
The Prayer-Jar
The Prayer-Jar
At the bottom of the prayer-jarwas a layer of quiet
so thin it could be missed,
so quiet it might be worn to church.
At the back of the church
you could take, unseen,
the prayer-jar from your pocket,
to collect the sound of people shuffling,
and then go shuffling off back home
through the market visited earlier on,
the clucking of vendors and birds on perches
already somewhere in the belly of the prayer-jar.
© 1996, Pat Boran
From: New and Selected Poems
Publisher: Dedalus Press, Dublin
From: New and Selected Poems
Publisher: Dedalus Press, Dublin
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The Prayer-Jar
At the bottom of the prayer-jarwas a layer of quiet
so thin it could be missed,
so quiet it might be worn to church.
At the back of the church
you could take, unseen,
the prayer-jar from your pocket,
to collect the sound of people shuffling,
and then go shuffling off back home
through the market visited earlier on,
the clucking of vendors and birds on perches
already somewhere in the belly of the prayer-jar.
From: New and Selected Poems
The Prayer-Jar
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