4/9 - 4/10
We puzzle over it parameters measured and unmeasured Their heels touched the roots of the first tree Their backs touched the roof of the world [metaphor; undefined] Here: the last foothold Here: the first sightline meeting the eyes of their enemy, their first enemy, and here: they made contact
They held their position for five hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds and fell on the sixth Pity then in the eyes of their enemy that unfailing machines could make such an egregious rounding error but unsurprising. The last company: expunged The first tree: expunged And their enemy, not content to trust unfailing machines with something like death, answered their bodies the only way they knew how
The heath burned in minutes smaller than the hours passed, and greater than or equal to the gasping seconds an inconvenient delay, but not inconvenient enough to delay night, or the enemy, whose troubles rested now in the black [metaphor; undefined]
But in summer, day breaks rudely as dayflower breaks through the scorched earth and as brigadier general breaks through the canvas tent
The fields of war are burning and on this morning the fire does not belong to him a necessary distinction, for it is not friendly fire, but bright, garish, the color of [metaphor; undefined] and the brigadier general standing alone at dawn among the countless thousand dayflowers that overnight had encircled his men
he thinks the display insulting, as insulting as the dawn chorus, but not equal to or greater than that of the last company for dayflowers are easier to burn
And he did so.
And on the first day, he did so. And on the second day, he did so. And on the third day, he did so. And on the fourth day, he did so. And on the fifth day, he did so. And on the sixth,
the coroner determined prehumously that the impurity inside the dayflower was inside the brigadier general also
Then the coroner determined posthumously that the impurity inside the brigadier general would hereafter answer to "soldier's dayflower" (Nothocommelina aegrotans)
Query: For whom do the dayflowers? We puzzle over it