Three Men In Alrewas Church…
Circus clown lips,
Sculpted ear to ear,
Reveal a cavernous, evil mouth.
Lustful eyes clamp their gaze upon human limbs
Around the font
And the salvation fails this grotesque aberration.
Pharaoh-like gape,
Chiselled ear to ear,
Reveals a death-mask’s deified features.
Peaceful eyes calmly gaze upon wooden screen
Above the font
And the deceased fuels his statuesque emancipation.
Foliage-lined mouth,
Carved ear to ear,
Reveals a Green Man’s potent image.
Expectant eyes cast their gaze upon south aisle,
Beyond the font
And the mutant feels his unique degradation…
Pete Ray
Alrewas church has three fine heads: one is ugly and almost bites the legs of visitors, for it is sculpted at the bottom of the font; one looks so like an Egyptian death-mask and sits high on an arch but the Green Man hides in darkness on the wooden ceiling…
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