Poppies

• individual war graves
• ”before“ “before”
• “Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias“
• Sellotape bandaged around my hand
• Steeled the softening
• The gelled

  blackthorns of your hair
• Turned into felt
• (her words)

  slowing melting. I was brave
• a split second

  and you were away, intoxicated
• Released a song bird from its cage
• A single dove
• A winter coats or reinforcements of scarf, gloves
• the inscriptions on the war memorial

  leaned against it like a wishbone
• your playground voice catching on the wind
• Who wrote Poppies?


  Jane Weir