Belfast Pavement Poem by Alistair Graham

Belfast Pavement



The
soles
of girls
and boys
and mothers
Eggshell-laughs
spilled ice-cream

Splinters of shrapnel
Spent cartridge, feather
Wild bomb, tar-macadam
Scream from the crack
Break mother's back

Streets of heaving
mangled heart
Blood pools
in saw-dust
Saline to
drench,
men

Sunday, December 17, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: war memories
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