After the Chorus
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Words: Rev'd Jon Swales
Music Pixabay: Piano Lament
After the Chorus/After the Noise
I wrote this travelling by train through the Alps from Rome to Paris, after reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV, “Batter my heart, three-person’d God.”
These two poems trace a movement from the triggered body, where worship can still feel like threat yet there still, despite numbing and distance, is a desire for encounter.
I. After the Chorus
Do not come to me now
as soft advice.
Not as the bright smile
at the church door.
Not as the chorus swelling
through the speakers,
all uplift
and…
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