the walk to the clinic

The Walk to the Clinic

The Broken Man
Walks down the Hill
Past Semis, then the trees begin
Victorian villas.

The Brave Hussar
Sat for his Photograph
A Puff of Smoke
The Broken Man

Is it me? Am I the Broken Man?
Yet again, on Remembrance Day
I think of the Dead
Who are not Dead.
Bonjour, I have arrived
The Door Thuds Shut.

Christopher Baily
November 2000

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