A commemorative poppy

In the Trenches 1916

I snatched two poppies
From the parapet's edge,
Two bright red poppies
That winked on the ledge.

Behind my ear
I stuck one through,
One blood red poppy
I gave to you.

The sandbags narrowed
And screwed out our jest,
And tore the poppy
You had on your breast…
Dawn – a shell – O! Christ
I am choked ... safe ... dust blind, I
See trench floor poppies
Strewn. Smashed, you lie.

Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier. Killed on a wiring patrol at Arras in 1918.

This poppy is a crystal sand-cast, designed by Sarah Peterson and made by Caithness Glass, to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War.