Muscle Poems

              —again,  the book on Napoleon inspired this

Scans

A field of battle

Prowess

Inspired

Obscure

Occupied

Acumen and acuity

Centralized

Petty

Principalities

Dissolution

Busily measure

Exhaustively

Inquire, enquire

Each bearing a different view

Ambitious and implausible

Squadrons

To fan confidence

Supremacy in nature

Swathed in

Open-fronted

Connotations

Its accents

Pays homage

Returned to a sound footing

Strove for the good

Shunned

Sharing

Assumption of authority

Bestowed upon oneself

Provided with the raw materials

Tacit masterpiece

Due in large part

Were then lured

Encircle the enemy

A wintery doom

Feeling watery and translucent

The film they’re in

Refined arsenals in attitudes

A craze for

Displaced from their…