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Sport 38: Winter 2010

Wilfred Owen's Bones

page 127

Wilfred Owen's Bones

Ors Communal Cemetery 2007

his is the third stone
in the top line
of these gravid rows

the words are sharp and clear
but is his body here
deep beneath my feet?

after ninety years
of drifting down in sediment
cloth, skin, flesh and viscera

will have escaped
as leachate
to the creek

then dispersed
like his words,
to the uttermost ends of the earth

this viscid weeping
will moisten only
buttons, bones

and a single
end-stopped
bullet