Poem: ‘The Golden Shrug’
A.E. Stallings, 16 November 2023
(after visiting The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum)
For Ange Mlinko
When did museums devolve to the didacticSpelling out our wonder? Not enoughTo show us something wonderful – the tacticIs multimedia to smooth the roughEdges of the imagination – ‘thwacks’Piped in to whet the silence of an axe,
Or see: those skeletons of ponderous oxenSacrificed still...