Memorial by Alice Oswald

Author:Alice Oswald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

And

IASUS

MECISTEUS

ECHIUS

CLONIUS

DEIOCHUS

Like bird families feeding by a river

Hundreds of geese and herons and long-necked swans

When an ember of eagle a red hot coal of hunger

Falls out of the sky and bursts into wings

Like bird families feeding by a river

Hundreds of geese and herons and long-necked swans

When an ember of eagle a red hot coal of hunger

Falls out of the sky and bursts into wings

KALETOR carrying a flaming bit of wood

About to fling it at the ships

He and the fire went out together

And LYKOPHRON

And KLEITOS it goes on and on

His empty cart clattering away through leafless trees

And

SCHEDIOS

LAODAMAS

OTOS

KROISMOS

Like thick flocks of falling snow

In winter when god showers his arrows at us

Pouring them down putting the winds to sleep

Until the hills the headlands the grassy lowlands

All the ploughs and crops of the earth every living twig

Is wiped out white with snow it goes on and on

Falling and falling on the grey sea

Blotting out harbours and beaches

And only the breakers can shake it off endlessly rushing at the shore

That’s how blank it is when the world succumbs to snow

Like thick flocks of falling snow

In winter when god showers his arrows at us

Pouring them down putting the winds to sleep

Until the hills the headlands the grassy lowlands

All the ploughs and crops of the earth every living twig

Is wiped out white with snow it goes on and on

Falling and falling on the grey sea

Blotting out harbours and beaches

And only the breakers can shake it off endlessly rushing at the shore

That’s how blank it is when the world succumbs to snow

DOLOPS the strongest son of Lampus

Not believing he could die

Even when his spear hit solid metal

And banged back again

Even when a man hacked off his helmet

And he saw his own eye-holes

Staring up at him from the ground

It was not until the beak of death

Pushed out through his own chest

That he recognised the wings of darkness

Like when god unwinds his whirlwind

A single cloud moves into the middle sky

MELANIPPUS not really a fighter more a farmer

PERIPHETOS the man from Mycenae

Who tripped on his shield

Like winter rivers pouring off the mountains

The thud of water losing consciousness

When it falls down from the high places

Mixing its streams in the havoc of a valley

And far away a shepherd hears it

Like winter rivers pouring off the mountains

The thud of water losing consciousness

When it falls down from the high places

Mixing its streams in the havoc of a valley

And far away a shepherd hears it

The River Axius has the silverest sweetest water

It flows through Paeonia

Where there are bison in the hills

And men make curved bows from their horns

To get there you have to go miles over mountains

Some of his men might make it

But not PURAICHMES

Like a man running in a dream

Can never approach a man escaping

Who can never escape a man approaching

Like a man running in a dream

Can never approach a man escaping

Who can never escape a man approaching

And

AREILYCUS

THOAS

AMPHICLUS

ATUMNIOS

MARIS

KLEOBULOS

LYKON

AKAMAS

ERYMAS

PRONOOS

THESTOR

ERYLAOS

ERYMAS

AMPHOTERUS

EPALTES

TLEPOLEMOS

ECHIOS

PURIS

IPHES

EUIPPOS

POLYMELOS

THRASYMELOS

Like hawkwings cut through a sheet of starlings

Like wing-scissors open and close

Through a billow of jackdaws

Like hawkwings cut through a sheet of starlings

Like wing-scissors open and close

Through a billow

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