Mervin Mirapuri (1945–2020)
1. BIOGRAPHY
2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
3. SELECTED POEMS
an excerpt from “Communion” and “requiem for non-creation” from Eden 22 (1974)
an excerpt from Chapter 1, “Mutterings of a Dead Pig” from A Walk with My Pig (2023)
4. SELECTED VIDEOS
SELECTED POEMS
an excerpt from Communion
they say
this is no time
no place
for communion, but here
is eden
and bread
and wine
and eve at his feet
the bread nibbled
the wine sipped
and hours spent
no deed left uninitiated
only a castration
but tell me today is no saturday
and i’ll say tomorrow is a sunday
and we shall have communion
not for the fruit we have bit
the songs left unsung
not for no glory of communion
we shall have communion
if just to say
this is a being
our being.an excerpt from requiem for non-creation
from hospital windows
sick people
people sick
watching
red flowers bloom on green trees
counting
distant grey slabs of life
listening
for bus sounds, car horns
alone, alone
seeing rain fall
through holes in roofs
saying
maybe no one lives there
this evening her lover comes
he carries no red flowers
