‘Reach out your hand
and put it in my side’
moved at hearing of Thomas’s act –
that extraordinary moment
its intimacy, the invitation
to trust and touch,
imagination travels to the theatre
with gowned and masked figures
bent in concentration
over human souls prone,
delivered to the knife
the testing, probing fingers
both intimate and distant
in their sides.
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Chris Ringrose is a poet and fiction writer living in Melbourne, Australia. His latest poetry collection is Palmistry (ICoE Press, 2019). Creative Lives, a collection of interviews with South Asian Writers, was published by Columbia UP in 2021.
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