War Poet by Jon Stallworthy

Author:Jon Stallworthy [Jon Stallworthy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847774583
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

At midnight in her dream – or was it

my dream? – when all the guests had gone,

the Mouse King marched from the closet

and with his brigand battalion

attacked the grenadiers. Surrounded,

outnumbered, the toy soldiers sounded

their trumpets, fought and fell, until

all but the Nutcracker lay still.

They cut him down, had stabbed and kicked him,

when Masha flashed across the room

and with a well-aimed slipper boomeranged

the King. Raising his victim,

her kisses and her tears transformed

the wooden limbs her body warmed.

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