image: Iraqi Army soldiers hold their guns as they patrol the streets of central Baghdad during training with the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division 4-64 Monday, June 13, 2005. In Baghdad’s western Radwanya district, an Iraqi army soldier was killed and three were injured by a car bomb. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.

image and poem below the fold

Antenna-forest
by Rolf Jacobsen

Up on the city’s roofs there are large fields.
That’s where silence crept up to
when there was no room for it on the streets.
Now the forest comes in its turn.
It needs to be where silence lives.
Tree upon tree in strange groves.
They don’t do very well, because the floor is too hard.
So they make a sparse forest, one branch toward the east,
and one toward the west. Until it looks like crosses. A forest
of crosses. And the wind asks
– Who’s resting here
in these deep graves?

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