Sport 38: Winter 2010
Wilfred Owen's Bones
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