The Shout by Simon Armitage

Author:Simon Armitage [Armitage, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-95874-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

no more than silhouettes or negatives

or hieroglyphics, stark and shivering.

A half-life, heat-loss at a rate of knots,

an hour at most before the very last.

All lost. Until it dawns on one of us

to make the most of something from the past.

He walks us to a garage, picks the lock

and pinpoints with a torch a heavy cloth,

asbestos, woven, terrible to touch,

then covering his mouth against the dust

that blinks and glitters in the beam of light

he drags the cover from a wooden cross.

No time for measuring the shortest straw

or drawing lots. There’s mention of a name,

and singled out the strongest of us bends

and takes its length along his spine, its frame

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