War Photographer

• "In his darkroom, he is finally alone / With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
• "A half formed ghost: he remembered the cries of this man's wife, how he sought words without approval"
• "The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and pre-lunch beers"
• Form

  • 4 stanzas of equal length is "set out in ordered rows", just like photographs
  • Rigid form could be a metaphor for photographer's failure to change perspectives
  • ABBCDD rhyme scheme reinforces imposed order of chaotic suffering
  • Cyclical structure as photographer returns via airplane - internal conflict?
  • Enjambment emulates developing of photographs