Poem
Elaine Feinstein
A Quiet War in Leicester
A Quiet War in Leicester
A Quiet War in Leicester
the shelter, the old washhousewater limed the walls
we only entered once or twice
cold as a cellar we
shivered in the stare
of a bare electric light
and nothing happened:
after the war
ants got in the
sandbags
builders came
and yet at night
erotic with the
might-be of disaster
I was carried into
dreaming with delight
© 1971, Elaine Feinstein
From: The Magic Apple Tree
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
From: The Magic Apple Tree
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Elaine Feinstein
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1930)
Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, biographer, playwright and critic. Born in Liverpool, raised in Leicester, she now lives in London. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. Leicester University has since given her an honorary doctorate in support of her contribution to poetry and literature. Feinstein is the author of fourteen novels and innumerable books of poetry. Her novels and ...
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A Quiet War in Leicester
the shelter, the old washhousewater limed the walls
we only entered once or twice
cold as a cellar we
shivered in the stare
of a bare electric light
and nothing happened:
after the war
ants got in the
sandbags
builders came
and yet at night
erotic with the
might-be of disaster
I was carried into
dreaming with delight
From: The Magic Apple Tree
A Quiet War in Leicester
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