In December 1650, Thomas Willis and William Perry were surprised to discover that the felon whose corpse they had claimed for dissection in Petty’s rooms on Oxford’s High Street could be resuscitated. / They are, all three, still: / She lies prone on the dining table

She learnt, slowly, to ignore the bulbs / which rolled, unannounced, out of newspaper / the bare pots leaving watermarks

This way, girls! / Miss Jones waves her umbrella / on the way to the Tube - it is

A blood pin-prick splayed between glass / He leans towards it, breath licked in tight / Mr Hutton drones on

1. Someone missing from group / I would put you – there – / in the plastic chair at the bedside