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Cards (13)

  • Ozymandias
    ‘nothing besides remains’
    ’my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings’
    ’the lone and level sands stretch far away’
  • Remains
    ’blood shadow’
    ‘Probably armed, possibly not’
    ’end of story, except not really’
  • London
    ’mind-forged manacles‘
    ‘chartered streets’
    ’youthful Harlot’
    ’new born’
    ’hapless soldier’
  • Bayonet charge
    ’in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was the hand pointing that second’
    ’king, honour, human dignity etcetra’
  • Storm on the island
    ’forgetting that it pummels your house too’
    ’wizened earth’
  • Exposure
    ’pale flakes with fingering stealth’
    ’for love of god seems dying’
    ’but nothing happens’
    ’less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’
  • My last duchess
    ’the curtain I have drawn for you’
  • Poppies
    ‘Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind‘
  • War photographer
    ’he has a job to do’
    ’reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’
  • Tissue
    ’never meant to last’
    ’turned into your skin’
    ’and thinned to be transparent‘
    ’an architect could use all this’
  • Emigrée
    ’I am branded my an impression of sunlight’
    ‘I have no passport’
  • Kamikaze
    ‘To live as though he had never returned‘
    ’which had been the better way to die’
  • Checking out me history
    ’but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole’