War Photographer

• (1) "In his dark room he is finally alone/ with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows."
• (2) "a Priest preparing to intone a Mass./ Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass"
• (3) "a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries/ of this man's wife, how he sought approval to do what someone must"
• (4) "The reader's eyeballs prick/ with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers."
• (5) "From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where/ he earns his living and they do not care."