Refugees walk through a field on their way to a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016
A view of the camp for refugees and migrants along at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016
#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [A girl from Syria rests near a camp for refugees on the Greek island of Chios]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016
#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [Graves
of refugees who drowned while crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to
Greece, many of them unidentified, were made on the Greek island of
Lesvos]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016
#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [A group of men praying at the Schisto camp for refugees and migrants, near Athens]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016
Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy one of thousands of refugees
stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of
Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016
Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy one of thousands of refugees
stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of
Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016
#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy, one of thousands of refugees
stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of
Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016
SYRIA - Children play in an underground playground built to protect them from shelling in Arbin. By @SameerAlDoumy: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 September 2016
A Syrian child running into the tunnel in an underground playground in the town of #Erbin. Ph @SameerAlDoumy: image via Sameer Al-Doumy @SameerAlDoumy, 17 September 2016
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
Here's Douma .. where the survivors die thousands of times everyday #Douma #Syria: image via Abd Doumany @Abd Doumany, 30 August 2015
Syrians amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by airstrikes in the rebel-held area of Douma, a suburb of Damascus: photo by Abd Doumany / Agence France-Presse, 19 September 2015
Syrians amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by airstrikes in the rebel-held area of Douma, a suburb of Damascus: photo by Abd Doumany / Agence France-Presse, 19 September 2015
SYRIA - Syrians walk through the rubble following an airstrike on Karm al-Jabal. By @KaramAlmari25 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 September 2016
A Syrian man stands in the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike in Aleppo’s rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Karm al-Jabal: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 19 September 2016
An Afghan boy runs past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP 19 September 2016
An Afghan boy runs past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP 19 September 2016
Out of the Fog
A woman passed out on a sidewalk in San Francisco: photo by
Gabrielle Lurie for The New York Times, 19 September 2016
A woman passed out on a sidewalk in San Francisco: photo by Gabrielle Lurie for The New York Times, 19 September 2016
TAZ. Montpellier, France.: photo by Michel Droz, 2 May 2015
Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016
Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016
Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016
Sleep addressed me familiarly, calling
She takes a third of our lives and when
we come back this way a second time
doesn’t recognize us
traipses to the curtains to let
in the broken glass light of clouds
CLOSED
read the sign on the dream shop door
the battered mouse a gray dust ball
roared about lost innocence
to a loose sock on the closet floor
ripped anew
out of the upside
She takes a third of our lives and when
we come back this way a second time
doesn’t recognize us
traipses to the curtains to let
in the broken glass light of clouds
CLOSED
read the sign on the dream shop door
the battered mouse a gray dust ball
roared about lost innocence
to a loose sock on the closet floor
ripped anew
out of the upside
Investigators walk through debris near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency, 17 September 2016
Investigators walk through debris near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency, 17 September 2016
Indian soldiers arriving at the army base, in Uri, Kashmir, that heavily armed militants stormed on Sunday: photo by Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press, 19 September 2016
Smoke rises from the Army Uri camp during Fidayeen attack in which 17 Soldiers were killed. Srinagar #UriAttack: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 17 September 2016
This picture fills me with emotions I can't explain. To all the brave hearts, Jai Hind #UriAttack #Kashmir: image via Virat Kohli Verified account @imVkohli, 17 September 2016
Black
smoke coming out of army barracks at the Brigade which was attacked by
four suspected terrorists near LoC in Uri in Kashmir's Baramulla
district: photo by Times of India, 18 September 2016
An Army Soldier blocked the road where militants were hiding inside d Army Uri Brigade camp in #Kashmir #UriAttack: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 19 September 2016
Uri attack: Tell-all map in Pashto exposes plotters: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016
Two-point breach helped terrorists access Army camp: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016
#UriAttack: Pak army asks for 'actionable intelligence': image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016
Army to turn on heat, asks govt to consider cross-border strikes': image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016
Normal life remains crippled in occupied #Kashmir as #Indian authorities continue to enforce curfew: image via PTV World @WorldPTV, 19 September 2016
Constant Crfue in #Kashmir hundreds died thousands injured no Muslim country and UN able to talk Cruel India why???: image via CAP Basit @basitashfaq21, 19
September 2016
CNN carried news on "rivers of animal blood" in #Bangladesh. But it ignored the "rivers of human blood" in #Kashmir: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 16 September 2016
Funeral of 11 years old schoolboy whose body was found riddled with pellets. #Kashmir: image via Syedih @SyedIHusain They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 17 September 2016
Funeral of 11 years old schoolboy whose body was found riddled with pellets. #Kashmir: image via Syedih @SyedIHusain They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 17 September 2016
They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 19 September 2016
Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016
Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016
Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016
Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016
Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016
Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016
Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016
Gandhi ji murder isn't true. He escaped to Dubai and now selling Mobile phone covers. RoFL: image via Ramesh Seethur aman @rameshethu, 17 September 2016
A group gathers near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters, 17 September 2016
A group gathers near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters, 17 September 2016
Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016
Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016
Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016
Palms, Mare Island: photo by efo, 17 September 2016
Palms, Mare Island.: photo by efo, 17 September 2016
Full of the elusive reality of sleep, that poem----"CLOSED/read the sign on the dream shop door"---and the mouse, sock, dust, light. It's late & I'm starting to get a little drowsy. Thanks, Tom.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Terry.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to be one of those poets who can induce sleep.