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![A migrant wrapped in a blanket to keep warm waits at a registration camp in southern Serbian town of Presevo on January 22, 2016, after crossing the Macedonian border. As refugees continued to flow from Greece through the Balkans on their way to western Europe, aid workers sounded alarms over inadequate shelter from the current freezing temperatures and snowy conditions, particularly for children.]()
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"Si estuviéramos a salvo en Siria, no estaríamos aquí congelándonos”.: image via El Español @elespanolcom, 22 January 2016
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): December (December 1, 1987), from Collected Poems, 2013
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#snow #migrants and refugees cross the Macedonian border into Serbia, near Miratovac. #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988):untitled ["Resurrect, reserve, resound"], from Collected Poems, 2013
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#migrants wait for a bus at at a registration camp in Presevo #Serbia #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016
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Austria to cap asylum-seeker claims, deepening EU migrant rift as charities warn of winter: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016
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Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia. Photographer Marko Djurica said: “Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, my colleagues and I asked ourselves the same question: what will happen when the winter comes? We were thinking of a Balkans winter: -20ºc and wind so strong that you have to walk backwards into it. Snow was falling and I headed to the Serbia-Macedonia border. The wind was so noisy that the migrants weren’t able to talk to each other. Many of them were crying from the cold. I was speechless.”: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016
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Another migrant is photographed in Miratovac by Marko Djurica, who added: “A migrant approached me, ‘how much further do we have to walk?’ About 5km, I said. He pointed to a group some 50m behind. ‘That’s my family. The one who is walking in pain is my sister. She broke her leg in Aleppo last year, I am afraid for her.’ I tried to calm him down, saying that there were people here to help. I explained that they had to catch a train to Croatia, then Slovenia and Austria before reaching Germany. ‘Six of us have €60 left. Will it be enough for us to finish our journey?’ I was speechless again.” photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016
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Vuelve la nieve y el frío a los #Balcanes para miles de niños y niñas #refugiados sin más abrigo que lo puesto.: image via Jesús Gabaldón @jangelgabaldon, 17 January 2016
Eso es el mar
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Amanecer en #Lesvos porque, aunque se nos olvide, estamos en una isla griega preciosa: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 21 January 2016
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Desde #Siria, 4 años. Le encantan los perros, reía todo el tiempo. Y aunq el idioma era distinto nos entendimos genial.: image via BCG @BCarilloG, 18 January 2016
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Otras dos. Lloviendo, con niebla y frío. Niños llorando, hombres y mujeres conmovidos por el pánico. Eso es el mar.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016
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Si no hubiese estado @Gfireinfo no sé q hubiese pasado. Zona llena d rocas y con 4 voluntarios. Todos a salvo! Gracias.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016
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Desde ayer a las 12 d la noche hasta ahora mismo aprox. 14 barcas han llegado. Y siguen.."Buenos días" desde #Lesvos: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 19 January 2016
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Alemanya confisca diners i béns a les refugiades. La policia requisa actius que superen 350€: image via Roger Suso @eurosuso, 21 January 2016
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15+ boats arrived today in #Sykamnia with many children.. All safe. #refugeesGR #safepassage (photo Dora Halari): image via Team Platanos @team_platanos, 21 January 2016
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122 muertos en 21 días. El Egeo la fosa común de la Europa fortaleza. #WelcomeRefugees #refugeesGr: image via Dabidik @Dabidik, 22 January 2016
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We deeply deplore loss of life in the Aegean Sea, as weather worsens. More legal avenues are urgently needed.: image via UNCHR Greece @UNCHR Greece, 23 January 2016
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A Yemeni girl watched women protest Saudi airstrikes in front of the office of the United Nations in Sana, the Yemeni capital: photo by Mohammed Huwais/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
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Israeli settlers stood by after dozens of Israeli Jews entered two homes in the Palestinian city of Hebron, in the West Bank, setting off violent clashes over claims of ownership: photo by Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
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Relatives mourned at the funeral for Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a suicide attack on a bus in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The attack targeted employees of the media company Tolo TV.: photo by Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
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A brother of one of the people killed in the bus bombing in Kabul mourned at a cemetery in the Afghan capital: photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters, 23 January 2016
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Poll: Trump in lead at 40.6 percent. @AFPphoto: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 23 January 2016
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Migrants fled tear gas fired by the police near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France, where hundreds of migrants are living in a camp: photo by Michel Spingler/Associated Press, 23 January 2016
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Camión con madera llega a #Dunkerque. El caos x coger unos trozos y así poder calentarse. Foto: Jordi Oliver #Calais: image via Fotomovimiento @Fotomovimiento, 21 January 2016
![A man walks in a makeshift camp known as...A man walks in a makeshift camp known as "the jungle", on January 18, 2016 in Calais. The residents of the camp in the northern French port of Calais are in a desperate race to save their makeshift homes from the bulldozers. Local authorities warned them earlier this week that they had just a few days to clear hundreds of shanties made from wooden planks and tarpaulin from the edge of the road that borders the camp. / AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images]()
![Syrian refugee Bissan Alabdullah, almost 3, smiles while standing next to her family's laundry outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016.]()
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Syrian refugee girls play at an informal settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. #APPhoto by @Muheisen81 image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 January 2016
![..A child from the Abu Sleiman family has a lunch at his house in the Syrian town of Beit Nayem, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Abu Sleiman, 39, has eleven children and two wives. He got injured in 2014 in a Syrian government air strike on his house in the nearby village of Marj al-Sultan and cannot work anymore.]()
A child from the Abu Sleiman family has a lunch at his house in the Syrian town of Beit Nayem, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus: photo by Amer Almohibany/AFP, 14 January 2016
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A Syrian woman and her children take shelter on the deserted Greek island of #Pasas. #APPhoto by @PGiannakouris: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 20 January 2016
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GREECE-A boy plays football as he waits to cross the Greek Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @SakisMitrolidis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 14 January 2016
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syria aleppo 19-1-2016: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 19 January 2016
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Migrants and refugees walk after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia, near the village of Miratovac. @AFPphoto: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 January 2016
A migrant wrapped in a blanket to keep warm waits at a registration camp in southern Serbian town of Presevo on Friday, after crossing the Macedonian border: photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP, 22 January 2016
Joseph Ceravolo: Starvation
.......................................December 6, 1987
For the new crusaders tired and dusty
from the trek across the Dardanelles
felt diseased and lost
abandoned and tricked
by the Holy of the Empire.
Empire upon empire
death upon death
Lord upon Lord
the holy children wept.
While an ailanthus tree crushes
its way between 2 close buildings
the space between an alley and a dream.
Saints martyred
find their way through dead forests
Holy bridges span the straits
bound for the change
and the chance to begin another life.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Starvation (December 6, 1987), excerpt, from Collected Poems, 2013
"Si estuviéramos a salvo en Siria, no estaríamos aquí congelándonos”.: image via El Español @elespanolcom, 22 January 2016
Joseph Ceravolo: December
.......................................December 1, 1987
The trees have no more leaves
except the pin oak, still hanging on
except the evergreens, pines, spruce,
green as shadows behind
the pin oak's brown leaves.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): December (December 1, 1987), from Collected Poems, 2013
#snow #migrants and refugees cross the Macedonian border into Serbia, near Miratovac. #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016
Joseph Ceravolo: ["Resurrect, reserve, resound"]
.......................................November 25, 1987
Resurrect, reserve, resound. Winter ice
is always there. Striations, scratched
down the mountain faces, winds
like torches of burning oil, acetylene
frozen deep in the woods.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988):untitled ["Resurrect, reserve, resound"], from Collected Poems, 2013
'Panic' as Europe faces demise over refugees, top officials say: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 January 2016
#migrants wait for a bus at at a registration camp in Presevo #Serbia #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016
Austria to cap asylum-seeker claims, deepening EU migrant rift as charities warn of winter: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016
Austria to cap asylum-seeker claims, deepening EU migrant rift as charities warn of winter: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016
Macedonia closes border with Greece to migrants, police say: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016
Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia. Photographer Marko Djurica said: “Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, my colleagues and I asked ourselves the same question: what will happen when the winter comes? We were thinking of a Balkans winter: -20ºc and wind so strong that you have to walk backwards into it. Snow was falling and I headed to the Serbia-Macedonia border. The wind was so noisy that the migrants weren’t able to talk to each other. Many of them were crying from the cold. I was speechless.”: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016
Another migrant is photographed in Miratovac by Marko Djurica, who added: “A migrant approached me, ‘how much further do we have to walk?’ About 5km, I said. He pointed to a group some 50m behind. ‘That’s my family. The one who is walking in pain is my sister. She broke her leg in Aleppo last year, I am afraid for her.’ I tried to calm him down, saying that there were people here to help. I explained that they had to catch a train to Croatia, then Slovenia and Austria before reaching Germany. ‘Six of us have €60 left. Will it be enough for us to finish our journey?’ I was speechless again.” photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016
Vuelve la nieve y el frío a los #Balcanes para miles de niños y niñas #refugiados sin más abrigo que lo puesto.: image via Jesús Gabaldón @jangelgabaldon, 17 January 2016
Eso es el mar
Amanecer en #Lesvos porque, aunque se nos olvide, estamos en una isla griega preciosa: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 21 January 2016
Desde #Siria, 4 años. Le encantan los perros, reía todo el tiempo. Y aunq el idioma era distinto nos entendimos genial.: image via BCG @BCarilloG, 18 January 2016
Otras dos. Lloviendo, con niebla y frío. Niños llorando, hombres y mujeres conmovidos por el pánico. Eso es el mar.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016
Si no hubiese estado @Gfireinfo no sé q hubiese pasado. Zona llena d rocas y con 4 voluntarios. Todos a salvo! Gracias.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016
Desde ayer a las 12 d la noche hasta ahora mismo aprox. 14 barcas han llegado. Y siguen.."Buenos días" desde #Lesvos: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 19 January 2016
Alemanya confisca diners i béns a les refugiades. La policia requisa actius que superen 350€: image via Roger Suso @eurosuso, 21 January 2016
15+ boats arrived today in #Sykamnia with many children.. All safe. #refugeesGR #safepassage (photo Dora Halari): image via Team Platanos @team_platanos, 21 January 2016
122 muertos en 21 días. El Egeo la fosa común de la Europa fortaleza. #WelcomeRefugees #refugeesGr: image via Dabidik @Dabidik, 22 January 2016
We deeply deplore loss of life in the Aegean Sea, as weather worsens. More legal avenues are urgently needed.: image via UNCHR Greece @UNCHR Greece, 23 January 2016
Survivors after a rescue operation on Friday, when two boats of migrants sank near Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea: photo by Giorgos Drosos/Kalymnos-News.gr, via Associated Press, 22 January 2016
A problem for which a solution can be found is not a philosophical problem; a philosophical problem is a problem for which no solution can be found
A Yemeni girl watched women protest Saudi airstrikes in front of the office of the United Nations in Sana, the Yemeni capital: photo by Mohammed Huwais/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
Israeli settlers stood by after dozens of Israeli Jews entered two homes in the Palestinian city of Hebron, in the West Bank, setting off violent clashes over claims of ownership: photo by Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
Relatives mourned at the funeral for Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a suicide attack on a bus in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The attack targeted employees of the media company Tolo TV.: photo by Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016
A brother of one of the people killed in the bus bombing in Kabul mourned at a cemetery in the Afghan capital: photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters, 23 January 2016
Poll: Trump in lead at 40.6 percent. @AFPphoto: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 23 January 2016
El caos
Migrants fled tear gas fired by the police near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France, where hundreds of migrants are living in a camp: photo by Michel Spingler/Associated Press, 23 January 2016
Camión con madera llega a #Dunkerque. El caos x coger unos trozos y así poder calentarse. Foto: Jordi Oliver #Calais: image via Fotomovimiento @Fotomovimiento, 21 January 2016
A man walks in a makeshift camp known as “the jungle” in Calais. The residents of the camp in the northern French port of Calais are in a desperate race to save their makeshift homes from the bulldozers. Local authorities warned them earlier this week that they had just a few days to clear hundreds of shanties made from wooden planks and tarpaulin from the edge of the road that borders the camp.: photo by Philippe Huguen/AFP, 18 January 2016
Precarity
Syrian refugee Bissan Alabdullah smiles while standing next to her family’s laundry outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP, 20 January 2016
Syrian refugee girls play at an informal settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. #APPhoto by @Muheisen81 image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 January 2016
A child from the Abu Sleiman family has a lunch at his house in the Syrian town of Beit Nayem, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus: photo by Amer Almohibany/AFP, 14 January 2016
A Syrian woman and her children take shelter on the deserted Greek island of #Pasas. #APPhoto by @PGiannakouris: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 20 January 2016
GREECE-A boy plays football as he waits to cross the Greek Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @SakisMitrolidis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 14 January 2016
syria aleppo 19-1-2016: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 19 January 2016
Migrants and refugees walk after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia, near the village of Miratovac. @AFPphoto: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 January 2016