“Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others
to whom he was chained —”
St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)
Context: Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others
to whom he was chained — unchained, and led
past the sleepers,
door after door silently opening —
out!
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