Daddy won’t be coming home tonight
The steam that rises from the shell
Mists up the scope lens
A steady hand etches a heart
Through which the other bleeds
A tattered pass absorbs the flood
Inches from the silent hand
That reached beneath his thread bare coat
A white flag not received
The towel-head becomes another scratch
A tally of the toll
A line on the barrel of a hired gun
No space for numbers here
A dog-eared girl
Watermarked in red
Stares up from the inner cover of the pass…
… daddy won’t be coming home tonight
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Submitted by leol.15970 on May 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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