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Thursday 10 September 2009

Home soon


Dearest of hearts,

Your letter reached me. It took some time as always but it reached me as always.
As always it was slipped under my paliass by an unsung hero. Some of the lads still call the medics and orderlies and stretcher bearers "conchie" and even "coward" but they are here aren't they? Saving some lives. Saving, by some ingenious network, the sanity of many. I don't know how they do it but they do. They get letters in and out of this hell hole and even Doubleday's mother's seed cakes sometimes get here still edible.

I dreamed of you last night. I always dream of you but last night we walked hand-clasped under willows by the river. I woke with tear streamed face: inappropriate to an officer of rank!
I hope you dream of me, my love, but not of me here in this place. Something in my mind nags at me saying I'll be home soon. I don't understand how that could be so. There seems no end to this.

I must go. There is a hubbub outside. The bugle calls and feet run. I must go. I must sound the whistle. If I don't we will be overrun. If I do, probably dozens of my boys won't return.

Come on brave boys, over the top!

Pray for me my Valentina. I'll be home soon.

© WR

Image by Gerda Taro

Tuesday 11 August 2009

Somewhere

It's worse, he said.
Worse than forever goodbyes in ceremonial
painting over emotion
giving grief a mask.
When they go to dust, these loved ones, he said, pain soon follows them
leaving a memory fondness
and a kind of always love.

This is worse, he said.
No pageant here to hide behind.
No dust to melt the ache.
Just ashes
and a kind of always empty.

Out there somewhere, you see, he said.
She's out there somewhere,
breathing this same air,
doing things.
Probably some of the same things.
Breakfast maybe, with sparkling morning eyes
and hair still tousled from the night.
Just as always, just not here.
Just
out there.
Somewhere.

© WR

Sunday 5 July 2009

Image zoom test

At the moment, this seems to be working fine but it has been known to go wild and random. If you pass this way please let me know what happens for you.



This image will zoom out when clicked on
(click again to go back)







Clicking on this one goes to the image source
(in a new tab or window - close the new whichever to go back)
This may get overridden by some Firefox add-on settings (such as the choices you make in Mix Tab Plus)





No point clicking this one - nothing happens
(nowhere to go)






On the other hand This Link might do something.

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Saturday 20 June 2009

And so it begins


Current musings are unwritten musings.

I'm just building the house.