The Manhunt

• After passionate nights and intimate days,
• only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face
• Semantic Field of Love: passionate, intimate, hold, trace
• Semantic Field of war: blown, bullet, unexploded, shattered
• and handle and hold the damaged porcelain collar-bone,
• the foetus of metal beneath his chest
• Then, and only then, did I come close.