we needed a translator to explain the word.
a differing gender.
he was someone’s brother.
mort de guerre
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.morte de guerre.
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.soldjer bombed dead.
the bandage is pointless, will not help him nor no one else who is
dead.
shall i make some more, label them and roll tight ready. we
use the rubber stamp on paper trace through onto rags. it is
a fine pen.
still connected our thread is black.
knotted
quite dead.
you came late, scattering all you saw.
left quickly.
mistakes occur.
soldjer bombed dead.
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.dead soldjer 2. by Sonja Benskin Mesher
.on the other side, talking to james.
My thanks to James Stephen for his input on this work. A Poetry Circle conversation..poetry circle.
on the other side
of the path
one yellow flower
**
early, the crowd came to see the famous arch . laburnum. i came to see the kitchen garden, seeds growing
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old words
for things once common
when the things disappeared
the words went with them
**
some words remain remembered;
scullery, coal scuttle, hod,
broom.
that is yellow.
**
have a vacuum for
most things
broom is for incidentals,
crevices, or when I’m lazy
’bout getting vacuum out
broom is red
with matching dustpan
**
i have a vacuum
there is nothing there.
the broom is for
the garden
mainly
or elsewhere for smelling like coconut
**
sweep your garden ?
**
slate bits
came from gloddfa ganol….quarry in blaenau.
front yard. leaves fall.
**
leaves here falling too
a tree here a tree there
so far
soon it will be
all of them together
a collective shed
next 6 months
nothing but bare branches
**
these are the falling days.
.talking to james.
i have a vacuum
there is nothing there.
the broom is for
the garden
mainly
or elsewhere for smelling like coconut
sbm.
.kitchen garden.
some words remain remembered;
scullery, coal scuttle, hod,
broom.
that is yellow.
sbm.
.dead soldjer 4 – fusilier. by Sonja Benskin Mesher
My thanks to Reuben Woolley Editor at I am Not a Silent Poet
for publishing “fusilier”
