Mills Bomb & Scrap of German Boot Heel, Mametz Wood, October 2015
'Dark, faceted iron oval lobs heavily into fungus cushioned dank, wobbles under low leaf to lie close to where the heel drew out just now. Tough, fibrous roots boomerang into topmost green filigree, earth clods flung disturb fresh, fragile shoots that brush the sky. You huddle closer to your mossy bed, you make yourself scarce, you hurry forward and pretend not to see, but ruby drops from young beech sprigs are bright your hands and face, and the other one cries from the breaking buckthorn, he calls for Elsa, for Manuela, for the parish priest of Berkersdorf in Saxe Altenberg.'
David Jones from 'In Parenthesis'.
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