War Photographer Flashcards
“In his dark…”
“In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
“As though…”
“As though this was a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass.”
“All flesh…”
“All flesh is grass.”
“He has…”
“He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, Which did not tremble then though seem to now.”
“Rural England…”
“Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat.”
“Something is…”
“Something is happening. A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost.”
“A hundred agonies…”
“A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement.”
“Between…”
“Between the bath and pre-lunch beers.”
“From an…”
“From an aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care”
