From R.S Thomas' Poem, 'Retired'

Monday, July 4, 2011 at 9:11PM
Peter Neary-Chaplin in Poems, R S Thomas, poetry, retirement

No longer guilty of wasting
my time, I take my place
by a lily-flower, believing
with Blake that when God comes

he comes sometimes by way
of the nostrils. My failure, perhaps,
was to have had no sense of smell
for the holiness suspiring from forked humans.

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