This poem by Margaret Jennings was inspired following a visit to the school by the Springwood Writers group during the Summer holiday. Margaret has a Masters in Creative Writing and was inspired by the school's Breeches Bible (1579) which is on display in the Memorial Library. It is called this because it anachronistically describes Adam and Eve as wearing breeches to cover their nakedness. As it stands, Margaret's poem is a work in progress.
If you wish to see and handle the bible, please contact Mr Sadden, the school archivist.
Forget the
beginning
and skip a
bit
past the
nakedness
and the
innocence
into the
breeches
and the
stitching of anachronism
into words
to cover the
cock and ball story
that was
empowered
to excuse
all the bad
the bad
the bad
the bad
The good
held in the
softest skin
sweat bound
and delirious
take it all
down
in Sanskrit,
in velour
talk of
breeches
in
unnumbered
chapter and
verse
and set
square to rehearse
the
innocence of the men kind
versus the
gift of giving
the splash
of amnion
against an
unforgiving floor
the
fontanelle healing
all the sin
within
Whilst Adam
regards himself
in the
mirror of his want
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