college sick bay <br />i count the bells knelling <br />classes to a close <br /> <br />father crying <br />he has always taken funerals <br />in his stride <br /> <br />The baby coos <br />laughs and <br />rocks the pram <br /> <br />whispers inform <br />strangers <br />I am the eldest <br /> <br />the corpse <br />stanched <br />bandaged <br /> <br />he lies in the <br />four foot box a poppy bruise <br />on his left temple <br /> <br />a four foot box <br />a foot for <br />every year<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seamus-heaney-the-haiku-poet/
