Arms

A man with two arms
is fully armed. I’m
an armed man, I can
hug you. If I were

in a battle, and my arms
were wrecked by arms,
then I would be disarmed.

But you would still be armed.
Your arms are fire arms.



Arms

A man with two arms
is fully armed. I’m
an armed man, I can
hug you. In Orkney

long ago, baith folk and dogs
were airm and hungry.
Die Arme. Arma
virumque cano: a poor
man with a dog. If I

were in battle, and my arms
were wrecked by arms,
bits of bone, bits of flesh,
then I would be disarmed,

wretched, airm. But you
would still be armed.
Your arms are fire arms.