Collected Poems by Sillitoe Alan;
Author:Sillitoe, Alan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-04-12T04:00:00+00:00
BARBARIANS
Walls he sat by had fallen long ago:
The city smoked after capture and rapine,
No brick left upon another.
These barbarians – this boy
Sitting on the littered scrub –
Belonged to a Scythian family
Who found the city as if following
A far-back shutter-flash,
Crazed with hope after a famished trudge
Over steppe whose herbs
Scorched by the haze of the sun
Pulled horses’ ribs so far in
They were almost dead.
By tale and memory this Scythian offshoot
Saw a glittering metropolis,
People and laden horses queueing to get out.
No brick upon another. While the boy’s
Mother scraped at rubbish
He played at tapping stone with stone
Cracked lips moving at the sky
Waiting for her to find food,
And idly placing one brick on another.
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