Bayonet Charge

• "Suddenly he awoke and was running — raw"
• "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air —

  He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm;"
• "The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye

  Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest,—”
• "In bewilderment then he almost stopped —"
• "Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

  And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide

  Open silent, its eyes standing out."
• "His terror’s touchy dynamite.”
• "Was he the hand pointing that second?"
• "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

  Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm"
• "... his foot hung like

  Statuary in mid-stride ..."
• "To get out of that blue crackling air"