Backwards-ness, and a Beautiful Poem

A little late--I want to call your attention to a wonderful poem:
"Last Post" by Carol Ann Duffy, which appeared on the BBC online on August 6, 2009.

My graduate thesis was about the "narratological implications of reversed time" in Time's Arrow by Martin Amis. By which I meant: how backwards is an important and effective way to tell stories about war and genocide, in that book and other places (like a memorable piece of Slaughterhouse-5).

Skip my ponderous thesis, please, and read Duffy's poem instead: it's the second one on this page.