Departure

I

‘In response to reconcile

The loss of repletion,

Whoever’s heart’s beguiled

In age of unreason?’

II

Time shifted in apathy,

Fire and Ice exchanged

In holy matrimony

By the ancient Grange.

III

Returned the broken soldier

Covered in soot — resewn.

And gazed in discomposure

As she lay stiff as stone.