Poppies

• Crimped petals, spams of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer


  Lexis of conflict
• All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting


  Enjambed, asyndetic, flow of emotion
• After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage


  Metaphor. Grief, anger
• traced the inscriptions on the war memorial 


  Connection to son
• leaned against it like a wishbone


  Simile, fagility
• hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind


  Loss of child and loss of man