SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT

SAN GREGORIO TOWER

At the top of the watchful hill

bell tower eyes

voids

 

That square Visigothic apse

Recaredo's altar

And the tutelary stones

Spectral vision of my peasant childhood

gregory the great

When the popes were holy and important

You sent legacies to England

Two English slaves told you about the land

Of the Angels

cult magnificence

You loved Byzantium

You converted to Spain

of Arianism

There it stands tall above the valley

The church that bears your name

They called you Gregory the Great

You crowned Europe

Under the sword of Michael the Archangel

England yes to the one I loved

my england

land of angels

And of demons at your fingertips