the fractured rudder
the frozen river
the blown hinge
the struts … the rungs
the parachute silk
a sweating, unexploded mine
the foetus of metal
the damaged,
the hurt
which ran through his face
of shoulder-blade
of his lower jaw
buried deep in his mind
of his grazed heart
beneath his chest
of his punctured lung
porcelain collar-bone
of his broken ribs
