The Bishop Orders His tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Themes

Let's face it: we haven't seen someone hate on a Gandolf like this since Sauron. Unlike the Gray Wizard from those Tolkien novels, though, this Gandolf is a lot more mysterious. We don't know when...

We get it. Who doesn't love a little lapis lazuli every now and again? Our bishop is sure a fan, but he's really not prepared to stop there. He demands a tomb of basalt and jasper, a pithy epigraph...

It's no shock that religion plays a major role in a poem that stars a bishop. What is more surprising, though, is the way that conventional religious belief is totally absent from this poem. At bes...