From the burned bones of the broken big birds<\/p>\n
Radium glows, green for danger.<\/p>\n
Everywhere the tide has wandered it;<\/p>\n
except, into the cirrhotic conscience of the M.O.D.<\/p>\n
And ranged against it, a protection agency too effete even<\/p>\n
to protect its own dignity.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Swept under the carpet of national security<\/p>\n
They failed to move the rocks high enough<\/p>\n
Or bury the frowning advice deep enough<\/p>\n
Fifty years later<\/p>\n
An ulcer rots between the toes of the shoreline.<\/p>\n
Roddie McKenzie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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