Good Friday 2017
Anointed with raindrops
caught in blades of mountain grass
and contemplating Christ
she who at school scorns the Jesus freaks
as she is seduced by revolution
worships in a raincoat Russian red
her tartan umbrella a nod
to the family tree
To grieve for one is to grieve for all
and today is and isn’t about
who’s ego still sucks
caught in blades of mountain grass
and contemplating Christ
she who at school scorns the Jesus freaks
as she is seduced by revolution
worships in a raincoat Russian red
her tartan umbrella a nod
to the family tree
To grieve for one is to grieve for all
and today is and isn’t about
who’s ego still sucks
Leslie McKay is a poet/writing tutor. In 2016 she won the Caselberg International Poetry Prize. Originally from Bishopdale in Christchurch, she now lives on the West Coast.