Prayer to St Margaret of Antioch, at her well in Binsey
Prayer to St Margaret of Antioch, at her well in Binsey Grant me a journey in a carp. Let me dive into the belly of the fish. Let the carp dive deeper into the algae greened waters. Let me be housed like the child at the centre of a Matroshka doll. Take me to the silent tranquility of your well -deepness. Let the cool autumnal waters cure my malady. Afterwards let me be a joyful ex-crutch user, striding strongly away. Looking for the winding of the rivers to follow. Watching as past antiquity layers the present. This path was once a Medieval layby, pilgrim’s path, now over built by the Western By-Pass. Margaret’s Holy Well at Binsey waits as it has through millennia. And Saint Margaret is a long way from her home in Pisidia. She sits contemplatively on the steps by the Holy Well staring into the darkness. Her long reliquary hair braided and coiled like a sailor’s knot. Leaning forward she drops the hammer she is so o...