War Photographer

• A hundred agonies in black-and-white
• ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel
• Rural England
• All flesh is grass
• Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh
• a priest preparing to intone a Mass
• as though this were a church and he
• The only light is red and softly glows
• with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
• In his darkroom he is finally alone