If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;
My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,
And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.
Philip Larkin, “Water”(Image: Waterhouse: Hylas and the Nymphs (detail) Oil painting. 1896. by freeparking)
from: aubade
Reblogged from Crashingly Beautiful
