The Anathemata
Keel, Ram, Stauros (continued)
Recumbent for us
the dark of her bilges
for fouled canopy
the reek of her for an odour of sweetness.
Sluiced with the seep of us
knowing the dregs of us.
Hidden wood
tree that tabernaclesa
the standing trees.
David Jones notes
additional notes
a tabernacles: used in the shipwright’s sense of the socket into which the mast is fitted.
comments
We return to the keel and peer down into the bilges.
But since the last paragraph ended with an implication of Good Friday, there is also here a suggestion of ‘He descended into Hell’ from the Credo (‘descendit ad infernos’, ‘infernos’ meaning ‘lower regions’).