With The Latest Reports by Mark Nicholson

With The Latest Reports

by Mark Nicholson

Pictures of dying soldiers,

uncoiling and stilling -

twitching into red - all tell me

that the war is a lie.

Tell all the men who know death,

tell them please, that I saw

the pictures of the unexpected

softening into a gutted earth,

with blood

with a final surprise,

and I know the lie.