Thursday 16 March 2017

Beestings

A Bomber's Moon, quilt 


BANG!
POW camp
Masson Mill near us
young Germans working the quarry
"Those boys were lovely boys"
when they

capitulated
sold off as lamb, as swine
to be killed by the Slaughterman
salted and hung
nothing wasted on a pig
straight into the

pot
in chicken sheds
looking for goodness
of fresh eggs
the freshest milk
drawn off a cow

after it's calved is
Beestings
(you've probably never heard tell)
rich, dark, creamy
dawn, the milk float
churns chinking
you're lucky chum, you're alive.


Isobel, June, John, Doug
16 September 2014

Buxton


From the arthur+martha project Stitching the Wars. A two year collaboration with older people in Derbyshire, producing two embroidered quilts, a book, interviews and a series of poems. 
More poems found here. A short documentary film about the project found here.

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