Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON


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BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by                    
First Line: In labour when / the raid began
Last Line: Her soul instead.
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The


In labour when
the raid began,
she could not run
as others ran.
Now here shall be
no infant's cry,
no navel string
to cut and tie,
she being—by
a bomb well sped—
delivered of
her soul instead.





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