power conflict poems

• what are the quotes in exposure?


  but nothing happens

  what are we doing here?

  sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.

  for God’s invincible spring out love is made afraid

  for love of God seems dying

  some drowse sun dozed

  glimpsing the sunk fires glosed
• what are the key quotes of COTBL?

  into the valley of death

  half a league half a league half a league onward

  cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them cannon in front of them

  into the jaws of death

  into the mouth of hell

  someone had blundered

  all that was left of them, left of 600

  horse and hero
• what are the key quotes for SOTI?

  we are prepared: we build our houses squat.

  Blast: you know what I mean

  Exploding comfortably

  Spits like a tame cat gone savage

  So that you can listen to the thing you fear
• what are the key quotes for war photographer?

  Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

  as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass

  all flesh is grass

  Rural England. Home again

  The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and pre lunch beers
• what are they key quotes from the emigrée?

  there was once a country… I left it as a child

  they accuse me of absence, they circle me

  my memory of it sunlight clear

  i am branded by an impression of sunlight

  the child’s vocabulary i carried here like a hollow doll opens and spills a grammar
• what are the key quotes in kamikaze?

  her father embarked at sunrise

  dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies

  and sometimes, he said he must have wondered which had been the better way to die

  little fishing boats, strung out like bunting
• what are the key quotes for bayonet charge?


  suddenly he awoke and was running

  -raw

  in what cold clockwork of the stars and nations was he the hand pointing that second?

  threw up a yellow hate that rolled like a hare

  moving in a threshing circle

  his terror’s touchy dynamite
• what are the key quotes for remains?

  his bloody life in my bloody hands

  on another occasion

  probably armed possibly not

  well myself and somebody else and somebody else
• what are the key quotes for poppies?

  three days before armistice sunday

  spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade

  i rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could

  play at being eskimos like we were when you were little
• what are the key quotes from the prelude?

  a large peak black and huge

  upreared its head

  lustily i dipped my ores into the silent lake

  she was an elfin pinnace