The Anathemata
Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)
It is the empty time
after tiffin
and before his first stiff peg.
The fact-man, Europa’s vicar
the Samnite of the Pontian gens3
within the conditioned room
sleeps on
secure under the tiffany.a
They sting like death
at afternoon.
David Jones notes
3 Pilate’s gens, the Pontii, was a Samnite gens. Had it been a Roman gens then I understand we should now be saying ‘suffered under Quinctius Pilate’, in the Creed.
additional notes
see also
semantic structures
glossary
a tiffany: mosquito net.
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