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