You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"

Ground

Not parallel, but staggered,
The Lines are clenched:

Fit for a fight!
Ready to war!

Gates open.
Frames close.

A new tessalation formed.
An orbit was reentered.

Body unearthed.

"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

- Aldous Huxley

Nerve

Between two visions of death -
One of incontinent fear,
Another spluttering for help -
I lay in bed:
One eye dry, one closed.