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Senryu #6 2021

 

alone, walking by
ants gnawing a scorpion
heart of the desert

 

 

 

 

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Shot at Dawn

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At nineteen you were still a child
hopping off to an aggrandised war
filled with romantic and exuberant air

At nineteen you travelled over the channel
to Mons, by the Belgian border marching
there receiving the horrors of humiliated retreat

At nineteen you went missing
first in Dublin taking leave wi...

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Execution   Mons   forgiveness   pardon   Desertion   WWI   War

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