Title: Touch Me, My Gargoyle Heart…
Artist: Carol Bomer
Date: 2005
Medium: Charcoal/Graphite
Dimensions: 30×36 in
Creation Place: Deep South
Sunday Service at the Home for the Incurables
Idiots
Misfits
Drooling fools
And spastics:
Forgive my wretched poise
and tidy clothes
and manners acquired
from much church
and so little rubbing
into your palsy and piss
and men asleep from birth
living in cribs.
Undo
me
dear
incurables singing
“My Jesus” in slapstick,
your hands with minds
of their own
shaking praise.
Moving in your midst
a tender light,
a love unkempt
And blind waits on you
singly, touching
each ragged grief, each
Buried rage and sings
your circus hymns
with reverence,
as one who well knows
the pograms of fools.
Touch me, my gargoyle
heart, and make
me
crow.
By Suzanne Clark
