📃 Daily(ish) poem → 00349 ◊ Setting the Scene ◊ Andrew Motion
Setting the Scene
Before I come to the trenches, let me tell you the village
is a ruin and the church spire a stump; every single house
has been devastated by shell-bursts and machine-gun fire.
I saw a hare advance down the main street a moment ago,
then pause with the sun shining bright red through his ears.
—Andrew Motion
—found in Laurels and Donkeys (2010)