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Matins 344 Portsoken (Make Me A Viceroy) Sing Luna, Sing Saviour Lace Bill Neate & the Gas-man Another Folly Under This Light, Through the Night-dress Blush & Haggard August





Under This Light, Through the Night-dress





Monuments are salient points in a pattern of stone.
Various discrete alignments: conduit streets, epaulette threads.

What affections are betrayed in a monument gaze?
What desires are cast as apathy in a bronze expression?
Do uniforms only complicate our love - lain in state
under a lonely stiletto plié, in cathedral fetters?

St. Mary can't pirouette anyway.
But under this light, through the night-dress...

Set the spire; set the mistletoe in the boss-hole below.
Let the dance-floor crack under the weight of the tarnished lovers
crowding in. "Mary, Mary mild! How we loved you. We tried!
In your awful isolation, oh we tried, we tried!"




Wellington A diagram of Pope Sixtus V's re-ordering of Rome, from Giovanni Bordino's De Rebus Praeclare Gestis a Sixto V Pont. Max (1588) Lain in state The Spire (1964) by William Golding

Salisbury Cathedral




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