POETRY RECALL

And I * it in fears
FILL THE GAP

2 And it grew both day and night/Till it bore an * bright

3 Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their

hasty *

4 The shrill, demented * of wailing shells

5 The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their *

6 It was an act of stealth/And guilty *

7 By day, and were the trouble of my *

8 Like such a blind and senseless tree…/All * persons are

9 Just ask for a flag, my friend,/Then * your conscience to the

end

10 these lacy things/that feed * dreams

11 Plotting/at my new *

12 nest of *

13 ashes of *

14 Now, when my mother tells me this…/I still feel/* about that

15 Human * Pouch

16 What’s * in all this debris?

17 blows her nipples/to * beads

18 Her * a ring/to store/the memories of love

19 The Assyrian came down like a * on the fold

20 I shot him dead because - /Because he was my *

21 *and curious war is!

22 oppresses, like the Heft/Of * tunes

23 ‘tis like the Distance/On the look of *

24 the soldier * in the sun

25 death who had the soldier singled/has done the lover * hurt

26 their hearts turned to *

27 When bombs smashed those mirrors/there was only time to

*