image: An Iraqi looks at bodies as he tries to identify them in the grounds of the morgue at the Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad 14 June 2005. Baghdad’s Yarmuk hospital has taken in the bodies of 23 Iraqis and one Nepalese killed in two western Iraqi attacks, the director of its morgue said.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
image and poem below the fold
The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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