Two Saints
By Aidan Coleman
Published 12 February 2021
George a Greek import
claimed
but Alban native
to England.
This the Church
of Gladstone, Disraeli.
George enclosed in iron,
his beaked feet
sharper than the dragon's.
Alban - nonchalant
in sandals -
shoulders a river of blood.
George to kill;
Alban to die,
Heaven's gates above them.