Excerpt, Found: I
— from letters sent by Paul Nash to his wife Margaret
21 March 1917, near La Clytte:
The willows are orange,
the poplars carmine with buds,
the streams gleam brightest blue
and flights of pigeons
go wheeling about the fields.
Messed up with all this normal
beauty of nature you see
the strange beauty of war.
- Paul Maddern was born in Bermuda and lives in Co. Down, Northern Ireland. He obtained his PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre and has since taught at the universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Queen’s Belfast. Found I is from the collection Pilgrimage (Templar Poetry, 1917)
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