Mametz Wood
‘’...stood, locked together by their bayonets
which had pierced one another’s bodies
and sustained in that position by the tree trunk
against which they had fallen. ‘’
Captain Gerald Brenan MC
Mametz Wood, The Somme, 16th July 1916
Iron helmeted
gladiators, immortalised in their final fear
Calcified against the
barked referee, embraced by it’s shattered limbs
A war statue, welded
together with thrusted steel
An epitaph never to
grace a Town Square, unveiled with civic pomp
But, eternally as one,
in a forgotten woods, dappled with neutral light
That blessed their
dying words, in a different language
Harry Mills : 2 January 2012
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