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After
the
first
phase
after
passionate
nights
and
intimate days
only
then
would he let me
trace
the
frozen river
which
ran
through
his
face
only then
would he let
me
explore
the
blown hinge
on
his
lower jaw
and
handle
and the hold
the
damaged
porcelain
collar-bone
and mind
and
attend
the fractured
rudder
of
the
shoulder-blade
and
finger
and thumb
the parachute
silk
of
his
punctured
lung
only
then could i
bind
the
struts
and climb the
rungs
of his
broken ribs
and
feel
the
hurt
of his
grazed
heart
skirting
along
only
then
could i
picture
the scan
the
foetus
of
metal
beneath his
chest
where the bullet had
finally
come to
rest
then i
widened
the search
tracing
the
scarring
back to its
source
to a
sweating unexploded
mine
buried
deep in his
mind
around which every
nerve
in his body had
tightened
and
closed
then and
only
then
did i
come
close
Author:
Simon Armitage