and by name, Bannockburn, Passchendaele, / Babi Yar, Vietnam.
how the saint whistled and spat in the flames, / how the dictator strutting and stuttering film / blew out his brains, how the children waved their little hands from the trains.
in Jerusalem, Constantinople, Sicily;
the soldiers spitting, spears in the earth:
bones in a bed, not a tooth/ in her head, half dead
allusions
asyndeton
internal rhyme
alliteration
anaphora
