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The Soldiers

Alice Miller
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Summary

We picked apples to decorate

the table, not to eat. Pretty till

we let them rot. The men came back

from France next morning, no song, their own

silent rot fingering their feet. Skin pulled apart between

bones. We caressed their empty uniforms.

We filled their handkerchiefs

with rotten apples, watching outside's

laundry's wet-shroud-flap. We clutched

their dead hands and promised never

to let the new wars bloom.

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Nowhere Nearer
, pp. 23
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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