{"id":138,"date":"2018-07-10T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburyenglishtefl.com\/artsblog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2020-12-22T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:24:39","slug":"on-the-church-wall-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canterburyenglishtefl.com\/artsblog\/poems-of-cataluna\/on-the-church-wall-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Church Wall Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">On the Church Wall Seat<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Like aging geese that tuck their heads<br \/>\nunder their wings, the dried out pair<br \/>\nprop canes beneath their arms and sit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The village hustle and bustle sweeps<br \/>\naround the silent church, like tides<br \/>\naround a self-reflecting isle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At siesta time the sea recedes<br \/>\nand leaves the dozing boyhood friends<br \/>\nmore fully furrowed inside old age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They are abandoned limpet shells<br \/>\nthat slowly parch in noontime heat<br \/>\nand dream-remember other times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The locked and barricaded church,<br \/>\ndark and no longer now in use,<br \/>\ncontains a vast interior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There they had lived out countless Sundays,<br \/>\nwhich still warm up those crooked backs<br \/>\nand keep sap trickling through their canes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Publishing Credits, \u201cOn the Church Wall Seat\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Linkway, Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, England, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Anthony Walstorm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Church Wall Seat Like aging geese that tuck their heads under their wings, the dried out pair prop canes beneath their arms and sit. The village hustle and bustle sweeps around the silent church, like tides around a self-reflecting isle. 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