Kit Kelen #1190 - blasphemous - Ford Maddox Brown’s ‘The Entombment’ 1870-78

1190

blasphemous

Ford Maddox Brown’s ‘The Entombment’ 1870-78

ekphrastic  for godsbother

see death

it’s here

the rodent taken from the trap

the painted thing

it’s the colour you

thorns for a crown

gouache and a Hebrew lintel

so far foretold

have to work for suspense here

whole faces

wiped away with tears

forked beard

hands to cup a world

eyes in cast

mouth beyond the meal

this ecce homo for a lesson

the lamb’s head held to show

days on the cross

and not quite gone

needing a little lie down

a few days then fit as a fiddle

there’ll be a countenance like lightning

that’s till the end of the world

so much to do

some say that understudy twin

was a whole life waiting for this

but it’s the bliss of the everlasting

he had a lamp earlier on you know

could have been a podiatrist

flow of garment and limb

and all that mid-Victorian hair

three power poles unstrung

(the end times)

gold for a halo

gold for a frame

could be a sun stood behind

forty days

the alien craft comes

throws down a beam

jaws set

and the earth might open

none of these ghosts give up