exposure

• our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
• the night is silent ...
• but nothing happens
• mad gusts tugging on the wire
• like twitching agonies of men among its brambles
• flickering gunnery rumbles
• what are we doing here
• poignant misery of dawn
• clouds say stormy
• her melancholy army
• shivering ranks of grey
• sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
• black with snow
• flowing flakes that flock
• the winds nonchalance
• pale flakes with fingering stealth
• forgotten dreams
• snow dazed
• is it that we are dying
• slowly or ghosts drag home
• glozed with crusted dark red jewels
• shutters and doors all closed
• on us the doors are closed
• we turn back to out dying
• kind fires burn
• field or fruit
• gods invincible spring
• for love of god seems dying
• shrivlling many hands puckering foreheads crisp
• half known faces
• all their eyes are ice