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@rsthomaspoet.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 7:11 AM

‘Ritual’ - #RSThomas
(Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986)
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Text of poem -

Ritual.
Not international renown, but international vocabulary, the macaronics of time: poipa, desiderium, brad, la vida
breve, despair - I am the bone on which all have beaten out their message to the mind that would soar. Faithful
in translation, its ploy was to evade my resources. It saw me dance through the Middle Ages, and wrote its poetry with quilled pen. What so rich as the language to which the priests buried me? They have exchanged their vestments for white coats, working away in their bookless laboratories, ministrants in that ritual beyond words
which is the Last Sacrament of the species.

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