The Good Soldier

two

gloated

crow-footed

eyes

              yellow

salt-and-pepper

matted eyes

 

lips

   sombre under

   rolling like a sea

 

quarter the walls

within himself

      

readying to pour

           into

mild bone and

                  flesh

    

the sun

       black

stronghold

 of gold

      dark and still

on the beach

 

shapes foreign

foot the night

uncrested

 

old ordnance

and brass cannon

wealth

send a solid

 

 

all

 

you

  

              be

 

shot

 

 

solitary

moonlight

peopling tombs