exposure

• ‘our brains ache’
• ‘but nothing happens’
• ‘for love of god seems dying’
• ‘dawn massing in the east, her melancholy army’
• ‘we cringe in holes’
• ‘merciless iced east wind that knive us’
• 'but nothing happens'
• 'twitching agonies of men'
• 'what are we doing here?'
• 'we only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy'
• 'attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey'
• 'back on forgotten dreams'
• 'is it that we are dying?'
• 'slowly our ghosts drag home'
• 'pauses over half-known faces'
• 'all their eyes are ice'