The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford
The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford
The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford
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Extraordinary the common parley<br />
Reunited | endless the separation<br />
Tommy bronze-putteed in his place attendant<br />
Daubed with a green clay:<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> at Large<br />
Signifiers casting small exhibitions<br />
Midday-lit moon stooping her own late relict<br />
Things else mildly brandish their presence | bugle<br />
Feeling the silence:<br />
Pause in clock-time veterans who at call stand<br />
Manifestly natty well-hackled | their horse-<br />
Collared poppies heaped on the barricaded<br />
Child-steps <strong>of</strong> mourning<br />
<strong>The</strong>irs the fourth dimension <strong>of</strong> understanding —<br />
Williamson making his peace with otters —<br />
Inconclusive what he had fought and died for<br />
In a closed season<br />
Spurn day’s arrow whatever god so bent you<br />
Morphic resonance in an instant self-found<br />
Being so bodied yet to have this glancing<br />
Apotheosis<br />
As <strong>of</strong> bare hedges as <strong>of</strong> fields awash | light<br />
Clouds I call grey-coppery early mornings<br />
Fused with sun-shot fog and the grassblades crispy<br />
Barely-heard tinsel<br />
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Much too much flair crediting party favours<br />
We are not Israel nor a spillaged sheikhdom<br />
As for war-aid well I recall those fifty<br />
Spavined destroyers<br />
Cakewalk dancers gape-grinning nine days wonder<br />
Not that I catch evidence they were ever<br />
Cursed by rabid Yahwehs unplugged creation<br />
Foully befoundered<br />
Cold campagna Tuscan rain-lacerated:<br />
Lacking combat readiness black detachments<br />
Spent themselves downgraded to road repair gangs —<br />
Check against sources —<br />
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