Mothering Sunday

By William Saunders

(from the poem The Summer Fires)

What will they remember when they wake
Those children who built this for a thrill?
sprawled around it one warm night,
spread dusty laughter on the sun hardened hill
then rolled away at the first hint of light,
left the sun to blind and kill
all threat and fear of discovery,
left the ashes for the wind to rake,
and let the memory slip beyond recovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Saunders
• Release date: May 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458149664

William Saunders

William Saunders is a poet, journalist and author. He has written for most of the heavy and some of the light British newspapers at one time or other, and was a columnist with The Guardian for many years. His book Jimi Hendrix London is published by Roaring Forties Press, Berkeley, Ca.

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Mothering Sunday

Poems by William Saunders

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Copyright William Saunders 2010

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