JOHN DRUDGE

 

Accidents

 

Pale and warm

Conspiratorial

Languid

In the dreaming parts

Of childish minds

Twisted up

Suddenly

In the widening light

Of awakening

Living by accidents

Of terrain and birth

Where we either

Reap the harvest

Of the morning

Or dig the graves

For the dead

In the cold

Moonlight

 

Sanctuary

 

In tune

With the wild world

Of sacrifice

The old faiths

Imbedded in the new

Another son

Of another god

Come and gone

In the last big storm

Of sacrificial hearts

Nailed

To sheltering walls

Behind large

Wooden doors

Locked tightly

From the inside

 

In And Out

 

Kept in and out

All at once

Like Hadrian’s wall

Holding us

Conceptually

In a regressive

Modernity

And tripping us

Into one more level

Of doom

With everyone’s luck

Running out

At the same time

 

JOHN DRUDGE

 

JOHN DRUDGE: John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology.  He is the author of four books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.