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The Hollow Square

The Hollow Square

A poem

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Mark Honigsbaum
Nov 14, 2023
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In Big Ben's shadow on a day wan with grief

Amid hollers and cries and general disbelief

Soldiers and civilians, royals and commoners

Assumed their customary positions

Awaiting the pendulum's swing

And the shift in dispositions.

Cranes above, craning below

The Cenotaph kept vigil over the to and fro

As Bobbies banked overtime

Looking for crimes that had already …

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