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Hooge

Roderick Watson Kerr

The moon – frozen eye –
Stares down stupidly,
And the wind licks
A few bare sticks,
Once trees:

And near the craters on the ground
Where the road winds round
Like wounded snake,
One sees
A painted wooden stake!


Roderick Watson Kerr

from War Daubs (London: John Lane, 1919)

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Roderick Watson Kerr.

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battles gothic night ruin short poems World War I
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Roderick Watson Kerr1895 - 1960

Journalist, poet and co-founder of The Porpoise Press, Roderick Watson Kerr was a tank commander in the First World War. While his later poetry was in a satirical vein, his war poems are earnest and horrified.
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