War Photographer Flashcards
War Photographer 1
In his dark room he is finally alone
with spools of suffering
War Photographer 2
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
War Photographer 3
All flesh is grass.
War Photographer 4
Rural England.
War Photographer 5
Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel
War Photographer 6
to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat.
War Photographer 7
a half-formed ghost.
War Photographer 8
A hundred agonies in black and white…
pick out five or six
for Sunday’s supplement.
War Photographer 9
The reader’s eyeballs prick
War Photographer 10
the bath and pre-lunch beers.
War Photographer 11
he stares impassively at where
he earns his living and they do not care.