Entry Point—Andrew Roycroft

"A great miracle to an angel mind: that men, beholding glory, were still blind"

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Andrew is a poet and pastor from Northern Ireland. His poetry has featured in a variety of journals in the UK and Ireland, Arts Council for Northern Ireland projects, on BBC Radio, in the work of composer Anselm McDonnell, and he has also had work commissioned on a number of occasions by New Irish Arts. His first collection of poems, ‘33’, was published in 2022 by Square Halo Books and is a collaborative work with artist Ned Bustard.  

Entry Point

by Andrew Roycroft

Were time and space heavy on Gabriel’s 
limbs - a sickness of plunged altitude, 
slow hours out of infinite - as he entered 
earth’s small vault, stooping further still 
under jambs of the low-ceilinged temple, 
miniature insubstantial shadow, atom of heaven? 

And there, at ease in the fraught holiness 
that made men tremble, did he meet with 
wonder a great miracle to an angel mind: 
that men, beholding glory, were still blind? 

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