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from 'Soldier-Father'
- It is time, now, for me to supervise his memory, older than the soldier, contemplating the same departure, the unreliable library of my life shelved in another's fragile skin, its walls only a bromide sketch. In the dark (though light is threatening the deadlock of night which brought us here) I see his face in those of the soldiers marching, but it is for me I place a paper poppy on the rain-wet stone of the cenotaph.
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- It is time, now, for me to supervise his memory, older than the soldier, contemplating the same departure, the unreliable library of my life shelved in another's fragile skin, its walls only a bromide sketch. In the dark (though light is threatening the deadlock of night which brought us here) I see his face in those of the soldiers marching, but it is for me I place a paper poppy on the rain-wet stone of the cenotaph.
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Publisher : Steele Roberts Ltd
Publication date : 2014-08
Subjects: Fiction, Poetry, Poetry By Individual Poets