mowing the grass
with the day's heat ebbing
pre-empt the kid asking
© Rachel Green May 2026
The Most Decent of Vicars
The delightful Reverend Richard Coles
is sixty-four and now retired
from vicaring at St Mary's Souls
write novels now because he's tired
of taking stick from Powers That Be
about stuff he did in funereal rites
and breaking unfair laws to see
parishioners buried with their dear pets.
“There is a wideness to God’s mercy
that doesn't mind just who loves what
Love is like the wideness of the sea;
and it's up to us to judge them not.
He doesn't mind the gays, the trans,
or old ladies living in their vans.
© Rachel Green May 2026
Reverend Richard Coles admits to breaking law during burials
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