Joseph Ceravolo: Dirty Benediction / Toxic Wastes // animal market

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SYRIA - A rescue worker carries a wounded boy away from the rubble following air strikes on Douma. By @SameerAlDoumy: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: Dirty Benediction

                                         
                                                   September 1984

My head falls on the dirt
It rains on my body
under the tree
Am I here with you?
You are not here.
There's bread in the grass
while the eyes wander endlessly

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Dirty Benediction (September 1984) from Collected Poems, 2012

Harrowing images after airstrikes on #Douma #Syria show rescuers battling to save a boy @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 9 September 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: Toxic Wastes

                                                 September 9, 1984

Poor animal, his dead tail waving
in the wake of passing car.
He's stone dead
as are his brothers and sisters
in other cities of the world.

It's hard to consider its life
yet one of us dies
with the same frequency.
Such lamentations arise.
These bums are lying
on the sidewalk of 8th Avenue
old coat pulled over them
waving in the breeze,
while millions pass them
like cars pass the animals.

Yet look at animals
and the smaller pinions
or the trees in ancient majesty
overhead, such innocence
in the roots.

One car avoids the animal
another over its head,
a runner trots by.
The tree, its sunny leaves
waving darkly underneath
with giant shiny crows
flying atop

O light from our only sun
ties chemical chains
to our only body,
shines almost forever, burns!

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Toxic Wastes (September 9, 1984) from Collected Poems, 2012

Harrowing images after airstrikes on #Douma #Syria show rescuers battling to save a boy @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 9 September 2016

Harrowing images after airstrikes on #Douma #Syria show rescuers battling to save a boy @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 9 September 2016

SYRIA - Blood from victims covers stretcher at makeshift hospital following reported gov. air strikes. By @AbdDoumany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

SYRIA - A man carries a victim following a reported air strike on the rebel-held city of Idlib. By @omarnajdat: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 September 2016

U.S.-Russian Syria peace deal raises rebel doubts as fighting rages: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 10 September 2016

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GAZA CITY - A girl sits in a vehicle next to sheep her father bought for upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday. By @mohmdabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

SKOREA - 66th anniversary of start of Operation Chromite, battle that turned the tide in Korean War. By Jung Yeon-Je: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

INDIA - Protest against civilian killings in Kashmir's ongoing summer unrest in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

CRIMEA - Russia's military exercise called Kavkaz (the Caucasus) 2016 at the coast of Black Sea. By @vasilymaximov: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

 

CRIMEA - Russia's military exercise called Kavkaz (the Caucasus) 2016 at the coast of Black Sea. By @vasilymaximov: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 September 2016

BANGLADESH - Firefighters work to put out a huge fire at site of an explosion in a factory in Tongi. By Rajib Dhar: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 September 2016

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GAZA STRIP - Relatives of Abdel Rahman al-Dabbagh mourn during his funeral in Bureij refugee camp. By @MahmudHoms: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 September 2016

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INDIA - Female elephants lay dead after being electrocuted at Kiranchandra Tea Garden near Siliguri. By @DIPTENDUDUTTA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 September 2016

GAZA STRIP - Palestinian boys arrive at a live-stock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Khan Yunis. By @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 September 2016

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A camel held in ropes by its traders performs a dance to attract customers at a makeshift cattle market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters, 9 September 2016 

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A goat tries to escape from the boot of a taxi after being purchased at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kolkata, India: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 8 September 2016



A goat tries to escape from the boot of a taxi after being purchased at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kolkata, India: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 8 September 2016

INDIA - Vendors sit with their goats for sale at a livestock market in New Delhi. By @sajjadkmr #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP, 7 September 2016 

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Pilgrims circled the Station of Abraham inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday during the hajj. A stone inside the glass and metal enclosure is believed to bear the footprints of Abraham.: Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press, 7 September 2016



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