30th Night Operation
{I will have done my thirty night Operations in the near future. Then Tll have a spell. I’m beginning to think I need it. At present nothing seems very real except our jobs, and they are real enough. It’s a funny feeling, a sort of apartness.’-From a letter from an R.A.F. pilot.) I SOUGHT- to fling the doors ot life apart, Within the walls of living lose myself, Slake my dried lips with sensuous ecstasies, gic ewer to store nectar of sight and But 1 la am blind-insensate, deaf and My day is ever night: I. wake to Thee tT 1 once knew and loved are shadows new, And I am rock, embedded in strange seas Of pallid unreality. NNLY these are real: Black night that presses like a pall about us, Chill cold whose bite is toothed ferocity, he controlled beneath my hands : eet, lar" yeag dials whose solemn stare is life, The shock, we? stark, sharp flash of bursting she Fireworks of hen, target below... "Bombs gone!’ The red that blooms behind us monstrously, Dawn wind, dried sweat upon my brow.
K. E.
Goulter
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 7
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18930th Night Operation New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 7
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