Poppies GCSE English poems

for Power&Conflict anthology Jane Weir

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Hint	Answer
	Three days before Armistice Sunday
	and poppies had already been placed
	on individual war gravers. Before you left,
	I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals,
	spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade
	of yellow bias binding around your blazer.
SPACE	1
	Sellotape bandaged around my hand,
	I rounded up as many white cat hairs
	as I could, smoothed down your shirt's
	upturned collar, steeled the softening
	of my face. I wanted to graze my nose
	across the tip of your nose, play at
	being Eskimos like we did when
	you were little. I resisted the impulse
	to run my fingers through the gelled
	blackthorns of your hair. All my words
	flattened, rolled, turned into felt,
SPACE	1
	slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked
	with you, to the front door, threw
	it open, the world overflowing
	like a treasure chest. A split second
	and you were away, intoxicated.
	After you'd gone I went into your bedroom,
	released a song bird from its cage.
	Later a single dove flew from the pear tree,
	and this is where it has led me,
	skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy
	making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without
	a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves.
SPACE	1
	On reachiing the top of the hill I traced
	the inscriptions on the war memorial,
	leaned against it like a wishbone.
	The dove pulled freely against the sky,
	an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear
	your playground voice catching on the wind.

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