poppies- weir

• long streams of enjambement- emotional pour
• individual wargraves- evrey person matters
• 'individual war graves. before you left' causara- end of life direct adress poignant and personalp
• 'disrupted a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer' war disrupts- school or war language ambiguous
• ' to run my fingers through your the gelled/ blackthorns of your hairs' sacrificing of the son for the greater good, biblical Jesus image-
• 'slowly melting.' - motherhood is fading
• 'with you, to the front door' hes leaving into the world shes setting him free from her protection
• 'released a song bird from its cage' symbolises how shes let her son go and be free into the dangers of the world
• 'church yard walls, my stomach busy ....without a winter coat or reinforcments' shes not mentally prepared for her sons death
• ' i listened, hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind' hes still a younger boy being forced to go to war- nostalgic mood