Poppies

• three days before armistice Sunday
• spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade of yellow
• around your blazer
• Sellotape bandaged around my hand
• steeled the softening of my face
• before you left
• i resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair
• the world overflowing like a treasure chest
• a spilt second and you were away. Intoxicated
• relased a song bird from its cage ... a single dove flew from the pear tree
• the effect of war
• how war effects families
• mother and son roles and relationships
• conflicting parental role
• war and peace
• poppies and remains talk about memories
• kamikaze and poppies powerlessness and loss because of conflict
• poppies and war photographer show the trauma and effect of war on individuals
• threw it open the world overflowing like a treasure chest
• all my words flattened rolled turned into felt slowly melting away
• spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer
• blackthorns of your hair
• three days before armistice sunday ... before you left
• playground voice catching on in the wind
• reaching the top of the hill
• the dove pulled freely against the sky