this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
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posted today from YearlyKos
image and poem below the fold
An Iraqi woman cries after identifying her husband’s body at Baghdad’s al-Yarmouk hospital June 6, 2006. Two civilians were killed and seven others were wounded when two mortars hit a market in central Baghdad, police sources said.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ)
Portrait of Madame Monet on Her Deathbed
by Mary Rose O’Reilley
Monet confided to his journal, “All the while she was dying, I could not stop painting her face.” – Monet at Vétheuil
He will paint her again as grain;
now she is fog
the chantilly fog of the Seine:
avoiding no hint of the slow dissolve,
the bandage around her jaw,
rigor’s cramp at the lip,
how death abraded and hollowed her,
while he remembered light.
Had he a failed heart
or a wholly transfigured eye
that knew her tonight as water
convulsion and sky?
that stared through layers of the body
at more than it took to die?
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