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73 year old widow Umm Ahmad inside her home in Kafr Batna, Syria, March 26, 2017. @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 27 March 2017
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#TalesFromTheBorder: #AP's two-week travelogue along the US-Mexico border [photo Rodrigo Abd]: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017
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#TalesFromTheBorder: Every 30 minutes, a crew of U.S. workers welds another segment of the border fence into place.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017
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A Border Patrol vehicle patrols near the fence at the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, US, Thursday, March 30, 2017.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 30 March 2017
Joseph Ceravolo: Fleeing the western eternality (three late poems)
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Homs, June 2014: a ruined shopping mall – one of the images on show at the Imperial War Museum.: photo by Sergey Ponomarev via the Guardian, 2 April 2017
"I have a bad day..."
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): "A man listens..." (March 31, 1988), from Collected Poems, 2012
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): "A man listens..." (March 31, 1988), from Collected Poems, 2012
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[Untitled]: photo by THANASORN JANEKANKIT, 30 January 2017
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[Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 18 February 2017
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[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
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[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
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[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
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[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
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[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
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[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
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[Bangkok]: photo by Rammy Narula, 3 March 2017
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Aegean Sea, Greece: photo by Andreas Katsatos, 23 July 2004
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DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
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DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
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DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
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[Bangkok]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 11 November 2016
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Siam Center, Bangkok: photo by Lord TonGy in Bangkok, 5 October 2013
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Zen, April 2012 [Siam Square, Bangkok]: photo by Lord TonGy in Bangkok, 8 April 2012
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[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
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[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
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[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
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2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
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2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
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2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
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DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
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DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
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DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
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[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 11 December 2015
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[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 11 December 2015
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
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73 year old widow Umm Ahmad inside her home in Kafr Batna, Syria, March 26, 2017. @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 27 March 2017
73 year old widow Umm Ahmad inside her home in Kafr Batna, Syria, March 26, 2017. @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 27 March 2017
#TalesFromTheBorder: #AP's two-week travelogue along the US-Mexico border [photo Rodrigo Abd]: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017
#TalesFromTheBorder: Every 30 minutes, a crew of U.S. workers welds another segment of the border fence into place.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 31 March 2017
A Border Patrol vehicle patrols near the fence at the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, US, Thursday, March 30, 2017.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 30 March 2017
Joseph Ceravolo: Fleeing the western eternality (three late poems)
Street Wise Romantic
The streets are empty and still,
between the red time,
then start again.
Trucks bouncing by,
cars to work, work.
The farms are disappearing as I noticed
years ago along this old route.
Now the farms lie beneath
hotels, office complexes whose beauty
is beyond the senses
in some economic realm fortified
by the delusions of power and inequity.
But the farms are lying beneath
and large poisonous plants
fusing the electrical circuits beneath.
No there’s no death to evil,
it rises again, now in war, now in bucks
now in land, now in power,
it rises up forever until the end,
when the light may intercede and remain.
Seek refuge from the fantasy
into one other fantasy.
We see violence done on subways on streets
but we don’t see violence done
in a new class system or economic twist.
Does it murder just as well?
Nothing can be done.
It will go on and on
until the intercessions of the sun.
Everything else has failed, and will,
but the innocence of youth
and the momentum of dawn.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Street Wise Romantic (December 7, 1984), from Collected Poems, 2012
The streets are empty and still,
between the red time,
then start again.
Trucks bouncing by,
cars to work, work.
The farms are disappearing as I noticed
years ago along this old route.
Now the farms lie beneath
hotels, office complexes whose beauty
is beyond the senses
in some economic realm fortified
by the delusions of power and inequity.
But the farms are lying beneath
and large poisonous plants
fusing the electrical circuits beneath.
No there’s no death to evil,
it rises again, now in war, now in bucks
now in land, now in power,
it rises up forever until the end,
when the light may intercede and remain.
Seek refuge from the fantasy
into one other fantasy.
We see violence done on subways on streets
but we don’t see violence done
in a new class system or economic twist.
Does it murder just as well?
Nothing can be done.
It will go on and on
until the intercessions of the sun.
Everything else has failed, and will,
but the innocence of youth
and the momentum of dawn.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Street Wise Romantic (December 7, 1984), from Collected Poems, 2012
"I have a bad day..."
....,,
I have a bad day today
I'm having a bad day
Bad as of an angry spirit,
although it's a beautiful day
and I call upon a new baptism,
one that will not drown
but at least hold suffering
under water long enough
for the fugitive spirit to fly.
I'm having a bad day
Bad as of an angry spirit,
although it's a beautiful day
and I call upon a new baptism,
one that will not drown
but at least hold suffering
under water long enough
for the fugitive spirit to fly.
I have a day today
one that is bombarded
with calcium and flowers of Nueva York
of buildings and stainless steel dreams,
of beasts and hymns
of the setting sun, held
down long enough
in the western eternality
for the fugitive spirit to fly.
one that is bombarded
with calcium and flowers of Nueva York
of buildings and stainless steel dreams,
of beasts and hymns
of the setting sun, held
down long enough
in the western eternality
for the fugitive spirit to fly.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): "A man listens..." (March 31, 1988), from Collected Poems, 2012
"A man listens..."
....,,
....,,
A man listens to music next to me, and
a woman next to him listens
to music, and a woman reads next to her.
Two men talk, one a white boy
the other a black white bearded man
a woman next to him listens
to music, and a woman reads next to her.
Two men talk, one a white boy
the other a black white bearded man
describing the stops along the tracks.
Sweet descriptions and voices
Sweet descriptions and voices
of holy mankind, holy rites
along the route to Troy.
But where is the warrior and where
is the guide, O Hermes
in the drafty Spring moonlight
where wind shakes apart tears
that soldiers keep to themselves
even in the music of the trees that set
them free along the holy ring of stars
in the destruction of the world
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): "A man listens..." (March 31, 1988), from Collected Poems, 2012
[Untitled]: photo by THANASORN JANEKANKIT, 30 January 2017
[Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 18 February 2017
[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
[Phetchaburi, Thailand]: photo by Rammy Narula, 22 September 2016
[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
[Krakow]: photo by Jamie Howard, 11 December 2012
[Bangkok]: photo by Rammy Narula, 3 March 2017
Aegean Sea, Greece: photo by Andreas Katsatos, 23 July 2004
DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
DSCF2913-01-01: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 8 February 2017
[Bangkok]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 11 November 2016
Siam Center, Bangkok: photo by Lord TonGy in Bangkok, 5 October 2013
Zen, April 2012 [Siam Square, Bangkok]: photo by Lord TonGy in Bangkok, 8 April 2012
[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
[Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 28 April 2016
2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
2017_0211_17162400-02: photo by Arth Figueroa Jumagdao, 11 February 2017
DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
DSC_8182: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 14 April 2016
[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 11 December 2015
[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 11 December 2015
[Untitled]: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 11 December 2015
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017
73 year old widow Umm Ahmad inside her home in Kafr Batna, Syria, March 26, 2017. @AbdDoumany @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 27 March 2017