John O'Dal


Writing

A MEDITATION FOR THE INSULAR

I read the work of Eliot / All Michelangelo, death and cake

THIS IS THE END

Tomorrow is always another day / Until the absurdity of death has its way

BUDDHA IN THE GARDEN

Over a garden hiding Buddha the ubiquitous, / The sun rises in the mist. It meanders its timeless path. / Calling to be photographed. As the eternal and fleeting meet, / Beckoning the aesthete.

ANGELS/ODE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

And I know angels die / And I know where they lie / Where they’re buried and why

ELEGY FOR NOEL TUNKS (ARTIST)

The Holocaust / Goethe’s Faust

PHOTOGRAPH AS MONUMENT

And how I bore the philosophy / Of bar-room bores / And Socrates / As they tried to analyse the dance / Of life and death as happenstance

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