Damage Done
Morning brings the sun’s revealing fire
to an urban street of warehouse stairs,
old graffiti on a concrete bollard.
Two men stop to survey work done
yesterday, to be repeated today.
The overwhelming grayness, broken
by their faces, by sand making its way
to a dull river under a black bridge,
is mirrored in two cars destroyed
by makeshift bombs, bottles of gas
with cloth wicks, thrown in hate by
brothers against brothers now Others,
proof there will never be a civil war.
(after an untitled 2007 photograph from the portfolio, “When Brothers Fight,” by Dominic Nahr)
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I really enjoyed reading this. Lots of moving parts and rich color.
Thank you, Samantha!
Really rich evocation of the urban landscape
Thanks, Brian!