Exposure

• 'Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knives us'
• 'Wearied we'
• 'Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous'
• 'But nothing happens'
• 'Like twitching agonies'
• 'What are we doing here
• 'The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow'
• 'Sudden successive flights'
• 'Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces'
• 'We turn back to our dying'
• 'For the love of God seems dying'
• 'All their eyes ice'