Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Saul Levene

  • ‘Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis’: a poem by Saul Levene

    ‘Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis’: a poem by Saul Levene

    Worshipping at the Shrine of Artemis, the Hunter You kneel in the underbrush            clutching a knife in one hand, antler in the other,            sawing, blistering away in the frosted            throat of winter, mould-green algae leaping up the trees. God is felt in warm things, the altar of his sparkling eye cool as…