Hedgehog’s Armour

‘Hedgehog’s Armour’

(After Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’, using a slightly amended line:

‘Ring out false pride in place and blood’)

Sing out twelve months

Of hibernating hedgehog

Spines bristling out

In self preservation

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Sing in a softening

Of her armour

To join together

In familiar harmony

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‘Sing out false pride

In place and blood’

For grief cannot be

A solo song

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Sing out twelve months

Of lonely battle

Let spines soften

And sing in circle dance

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(Image Matisse)