the poetrysheet
whimsy, subversion, bowling
Number 505, June 10, 2004
Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867)
“The battlefield became a tourist attraction almost before
the corpses were cold. Most were buried in mass graves and later disinterred,
their bones crushed into fertilizer; teeth were recycled as dentures, known as
‘Waterloo teeth.’”
—“The model-maker's quest,“ Alan Judd reviews Wellington's Smallest Victory: the
Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo, by Peter Hofschröe, March 22, 2004, arts.telegraph.co.uk,
Andy Oren, 1959-1989
In the church,
sighs in yawning space.
In the back,
a ripple of hymnal.
Blue votives flicker
at the Virgin’s feet.
Quiet,
painless.
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