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War Photographer

In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.

The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass.

Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.

He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays

beneath his hands which did not tremble then

though seem to now. 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 happening. A stranger's features

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">faintly start to twist before his eyes,

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of this man's wife, how he sought approval

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">without words to do what someone must

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and how the blood stained into foreign dust.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A hundred agonies in black-and-white

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From which his editor will pick out five or six

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From the aeroplane he stares impassively where

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he earns his living and they do not care

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