That's wonderful, Greyeyes ! As someone who became involved in the search for the poem on Sarah's spin-off thread to this one ( titled: "Calling All Librarians and Poets"), thank you very, very much. This is indeed the poem I remembered reading at school - I had remembered the "gunshot" reference and the picture the poem evoked had stayed in my mind over 30 years, but I couldn't remember the poet.

I hope Sarah's work colleague will still be able to make use of this. Wonderful !

- jeanie