war photographer - carol ann duffy

Cards (9)

  • spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
  • he has a job to do.
  • running children in a nightmare heat.
  • a half-formed ghost
  • at where he earns his living and they do not care. (last line)
  • a hundred agonies in black and white
  • the reader's eyeballs prick
  • all flesh is grass (biblical quote - reminds of the transience (temporariness) of life)
  • the cries of this man's wife (unnamed - there are millions of widows, families torn apart, onomatopoeia)