that these photographs all
ways political
would remind us that
war never does good
any nor death how
the darkness slow
lies treacle flowing
out from body by body
across floors mud
or fires take away
flesh or steel walls
no enemy sees or allows
as if to signal something beyond
words cant contain
that long ago shadow burnt
unsaid untold incised
Douglas Barbour
Wednesday August 24 2005
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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