The place where T E Lawrence was fatally injured ...

Walking towards Clouds Hill, I thought of the moment that Lawrence was flung from the Brough Superior, Boanerges, his slender body broken upon the road -

Water dripped from sad firs - we could hear the sinister growling of tanks - 

There - there's the stone Penny said - 

We stopped to read the words on the pale memorial - T E Lawrence was fatally injured near this place May 13 1935 - 

I stared at the grassy bank, now covered with fallen leaves - a soft rain fell - 

I imagined the stillness of twisted limbs, the splintered bone - all that bright strange life ended here - 

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November 21 2014

Near Clouds Hill