Beestings

A Bomber's Moon, quilt 

BANG!

POW camp

Masson Mill near us

young Germans working the quarry

"Those boys were lovely boys"

when they

capitulated

sold off as lamb, as swine

to be killed by the Slaughterman

salted and hung

nothing wasted on a pig

straight into the

pot

in chicken sheds

looking for goodness

of fresh eggs

the freshest milk

drawn off a cow

after it's calved is

Beestings

(you've probably never heard tell)

rich, dark, creamy

dawn, the milk float

churns chinking

you're lucky chum, you're alive.

Isobel, June, John, Doug

16 September 2014

Buxton

From the arthur+martha project Stitching the Wars. A two year collaboration with older people in Derbyshire, producing two embroidered quilts, a book, interviews and a series of poems. 

More poems found here. A short documentary film about the project found here.