War Photographer Flashcards
Poems
The reassurance… just outside it
The reassurance of the frame is flexible
you can think that just outside it
People eat… out the tragic
People eat sleep love normally
while i seek out the tragic
as last week… some devastated street
as last week when i followed a small girl
staggering down some devastated street
hip thrust… my finger pressed
hip thrust out under a babys weight
she saw me seeing her my finger pressed
at the corner… shattered stones
at the corner the first bomb of the morning
shattered the stones
instinct prevailing… began to hurt
instinct prevailing she dropped her burden
and mouth too small for her dark scream
began to run
the picture showed… almost smile
the picture showed the little mother
the almost smile
Their caption read… triumphs over all
their caption read
even in hell the human spirit
triumphs over all
but hell… on a wall
but hell like heaven is untidy
its boundaries
arbitrary as blood stain on a wall