exposure

• "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us ..."
• "Worried by silence"
• "But nothing happens."
• "Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles."
• "Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles"
• "Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war"
• "What are we doing here?"
• "Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army

  Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey"
• "bullets streak the silence.

  Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow"
• "Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces"
• "-Is it that we are dying?"
• "Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed."
• "But nothing happens."