(1937 - / Leeds / England)

poet Tony Harrison
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  • ''The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front,
    bringing mental magic to modern armament.''
    Tony Harrison (b. 1953), British poet. Square Rounds. The speaker is intended to be the German chemist Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and father of chemical warfare.
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When the chilled dough of his flesh went in an oven
not unlike those he fuelled all his life,
I thought of his cataracts ablaze with Heaven
and radiant with the sight of his dead wife,
light streaming from his mouth to shape her name,
'not Florence and not Flo but always Florrie.'
I thought how his cold tongue burst into flame
but only literally, which makes me sorry,
sorry for his sake there's no Heaven to reach.

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