in the midst of this carnage small wonder his mind filled with images of violence / small wonder he should concern himself with this manifestation of the slaughter without / within his mind / he hesitated to consider himself in anyway of any consequence / separate / as he hesitated he considered himself either poison or cure / which? / he could not say with certainty / not even certain how he was regarded by his fellows / fellow sufferers like himself / yet he was the only one in his unit to produce these images / hung gently flapping / rustling / spiked on a rusty nail / stuck wi a gob o spit ta tha mud walls o tha dugout barrack room / look here / sketches of casualties / what else expected under such circumstances / fucking bastard demoralising sketches torn down and burnt / soldier bundled into waggon / carted off discreetly shot / slump back against crumbling farmhouse wall / my blood stained ivy / oh colours / feelings retreat / not much notice taken / in the midst of carnage