The Iconoclast
poem | After Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium,' inspired by the icons at the Hagia Sophia.
I
how weird-numb-slow that morning must have felt
in grey byzantium, as that man rose
from off the tidy carpet where he knelt
for prayer as his words drew to a close
he sensed that god in his great glory held
for him a place in time, and one for those
who’d witness his creation on that day --
who’d witness what he’d choose to take away.
II
on slabs of…
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