the tenuousness of stretched time
recounting
embarkation leave
a doleful ring to his voice
embrocation
rang in my mind
ne’er the twain shall meet
across the cleft between war and peace
my uncle
torpedoed off ireland
one week survivor’s leave
that doleful ring to his voice
incendiary bomb
he climbed through the window onto the roof
down the house near the docks
a close call
from across the water
i did that
ringing in his voice
a true hollowness
of times that forgot to be forgotten
when the exclamation of oh no was done
the armies in their theatres
the navies on the seas
the airmen of the sky’s limits
the loneliness of the scapa flows
where everyone knows
someone who was stationed there
recounting in their particular voice
the dolefulness of times long past recounting
now that their time is done
how hollow they ring
despite the tears that fall
sparking in the matt nights of grief
how that embrocation stings now
but then the gulf swallowed all
let’s play cowboys and indians
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