Poetry - Exposure Flashcards
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our brains…
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ache as the merciless iced east wind that knive us
2
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low, dropping…
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flares confuse our memory of the salient
3
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worried by…
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silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous
4
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watching, we hear…
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the mad gusts tugging at the wire
5
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we only know war…
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lasts rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy
6
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dawn massing in the…
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east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey
7
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sudden successive…
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flights of bullets streak through the silence
8
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less deadly than the…
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air that shudders black with snow
9
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pale flakes with…
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fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
10
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we cringe in…
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hole
11
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is it that we…
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are dying?
12
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slowly our ghost…
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drag home;
13
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glimpsing the sunk…
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fires, glozed with crusted dark-red jewels;
14
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we turn back…
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to our dying
15
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for love of…
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god seems dying.
