Sweet Savour

By D.S. Martin

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It's one thing to describe   thunder's
grumble to your ear   & how
the vibration penetrates your ribcage

lightning cracking the night
wide open   the keen downpour
on your upturned face

& the jitter of a cool trickle   down
the back of your neck   But what of
a taste   unknown to your hearer

like this taste   I've tasted   & been
swallowed by   & seen?   What of
this goodness   this sweet savour?

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D.S. Martin is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College, and Series Editor for the Poiema Poetry Series from Cascade Books. He has written five poetry collections including Angelicus (2021), Ampersand (2018) and Conspiracy of Light: Poems Inspired by the Legacy of C. S. Lewis (2013). He and his wife live in Brampton, Ontario; they have two adult sons.

D.S. Martin's other work on Foreshadow:
Beginning & Beginning (Poetry, April 2023)