Undertones of War<\/em>. It costs a dime,<\/p>\n\u00a0 and all around her, all she need is look<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
to see Toronto choked with veterans,<\/p>\n
\u00a0 wheezing past her whizz-bang attitude<\/p>\n
that after all it\u2019s twenty years since then,<\/p>\n
\u00a0 and youth will have its sway and certitude<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
that past is past is passed is passed away.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 O Helen, in your hand you held a friend<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ravished by particulars, whose fate<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
was to smile and quietly unsay<\/p>\n
\u00a0 that the war to end all never ends<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 until we hold in hand the hands of mates<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 long since buried under soil. So Frye<\/p>\n
\u00a0 took decades to search out his brother\u2019s grave \u2013<\/p>\n
Eraytus Howard \u2013 where his mother paused<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 her life on permanent no-need-reply:<\/p>\n
\u00a0 to whom it may concern please Jesus save<\/p>\n
this brother who you never are and was.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Blunden was a genius; so were you,<\/p>\n
but he saw you and you blindsided him<\/p>\n
\u00a0 with academic fireworks and true<\/p>\n
to form he smiled and let you win<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 the laurels that a soldier poet knows.<\/p>\n
Bound with brows of time and in the din<\/p>\n
\u00a0 of battle blasted memory he goes,<\/p>\n
that shepherd who had gathered Howard in.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
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