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Rodney Matthews: Another Time, Another Place – by R J Dent

My translation of Charles Baudelaire’s ‘When she walks, it’s as though she dances...’ beautifully read by Listen to Poetry:

https://soundcloud.com/user-830859983/when-she-walks-its-as-though?in=user-830859983/sets/charles-baudelaire

The Amber Veil

© R J Dent (2020)

Roman Occupation

© R J Dent (2020)

A poem about the possible post-crucifixion thoughts of the Roman soldier ordered to hammer nails into Jesus of Nazareth’s hands and feet.

Moon-Calf

© R J Dent (2020)

Here is a Latin version of my poem, Roman Occupation, with the original English version below it.

Roman Occupation is a crucifixion poem narrated by the Roman soldier who hammered the nails into Christ’s hands and feet.

Roman Occupation was first published in Inclement, Volume 5, Issue 2.

Moonstone Silhouettes, my debut poetry collection, is available here:

The back cover of Sade: Sex and Death - a study of the Marquis De Sade’s influence on the Surrealists...

Sade: Sex and Death - available at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sade-Divine-Marquis-Surrealists-Archive/dp/0982046499

and at: 

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo11334062.html

and at:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/sade-sex-and-death/candice-black/9780982046494

Circus Boy

© R J Dent (2020)

Circus Boy is a poem I wrote after watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s powerful and moving film, Santa Sangre.