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Brass Rubbing, Poets' Corner

Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2005 by Maddox, Marjorie

Within this Abbey's

ornate double triforium,

magnificent cross of arch and tile-

ah, here's the rub

of rhyme and ritual,

headstone replicas rented out

to half-literate tourists

eager to re-create in wax and brass and paper

a lost era of poets held in prominence

within these gold and holy walls:

Chaucer, Browning, Milton, Burns,

the Bard himself, knights all

of form and line, regal in the resonance

of memory's recitation,

ready for an Icon's worth of veneration

in this side hall, footsteps from the High Altar.

In the beginning was the Word.

MARJORIE MADDOX*

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* Marjorie Maddox is Director of Creative Writing at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.