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      • 2021 01.08 The room - covidshort VIDEO ONLINE EVENT
  • 2010's
    • 2019 >
      • 2019 08.03 Beithe Deoir MEMORIAL FOREST and ECO-ART VILLAGE
      • 2019 07.04 ALIVE WALL GARDEN GOMA WATERFORD
      • 2019 05.24 Biodiversity WEEK Beithe Deoir presentation GOMA WATERFORD
      • 2019 04.09 SEMS Rcycle Reuse WATERFORD
      • 2019 02.16 OUR BELOVED SWEETEARTH event presentation FOREST FRIENDS IRELAND SLBD NEW ROSS
    • 2018 >
      • 2018 12.13/01.13 Group Exhibition Calligh Berri Bui: Outburst WATERFORD
      • 2018 12.07 Forest Friends Ireland New Branch and art exhibition Skylon Hotel
      • 2018 10.18 GROUP EXHIBITION art and crafts WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL
      • 2018 09.21 ENCHAUNTER Lullabies DUBLIN CULTURE NIGHT
      • 2018 08.14 BUTTERFLY etching on copper NEW ROSS
      • 2018 05.30 WAY DOWN SOUTH (BREAK THE HEART OF ME!) sculpture DUBLIN
      • 2018 05.15 FOREST FRIENDS Launch of PEACE FOREST DUBLIN
      • 2018 03.17 Beithe Deoir ART MARKET WEXFORD
      • 2018 03.07/11 CAILITE AGUS FAIGHTE 2 / LOST & FOUND 2 Photographic installation DUBLIN
      • 2018 02.25 THE URN workshop DUBLIN ZeroWaste Festival ABC Drumcondra
    • 2017 >
      • 2017 12.17 The Back Page Market Art and Crafts DUBLIN
      • 2017 11.30 CAILITE AGUS FAIGHTE Finissage Event Ivy House DUBLIN
      • 2017 10.00 CIRCLES OF THE SUN film CORK
      • 2017 09.22 ENCHAUNTER Lullabies DUBLIN
      • 2017 08.30/12.01 CAILITE AGUS FAIGHTE solo exhibition Ivy House DUBLIN
      • 2017 08.06 DROSS EVOLUTION GALLERY Sustainable and Recycled Art and Design Collective OPENING in NAAS Co. KILDARE
      • 2017 07.02 ACCORDING TO THIS RESISTANCE VIDEO by THERESE DALTON ITALIAN FUSION FESTIVAL DUBLIN
      • 2017 06.07 ACCORDING TO THIS RESISTANCE sculpture FERRYBANK, WATERFORD
      • 2017 02.25 MARTIN SCORSESE INDUSTRY masterclass DUBLIN
      • 2017 02.12 WINDY OZ stall at FUSION SUNDAY MARKET DUBLIN
      • 2017 02.17 Bernard Show Art Market Art & Design DUBLIN
      • 2017 02.17 MUSIC OF INDIFFERENCE solo exhibition study GOMA GALLERY WATERFORD
      • 2017 01.00 BIRDHEADED MONSTER film production of script by Joseph Minion BARCELONA-DUBLIN-ROME
    • 2016 >
      • 20161028 CIRCLES OF THE SUN Film DUBLIN
      • 2016 04/10.00 WABI-SABI ceramic work in progress NEW ROSS
      • 2016 08.05 WOMEN'S LIVES MATTER installation NEW ROSS
      • 2016 07/08.00 WOODWALK video Werner Herzog Film Direction Course On Line NEW ROSS
      • 2016 07.28/31 S-KIPS 200 Screening CRUTHÙ` ARTS FESTIVAL LONGFORD
      • 2016 07.09 UNTITLED Collography SOMA CONTEMPORARY WATERFORD
      • 2016 06.12 Groups 4 Growth STREETFEAST CBS
      • 2016 04.00 Irish Drawing Circle 1 2016 04.00 Irish Drawing Circle 1 Dorothy's Book's Book
      • 2016 03.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLE Kiera's Book
      • 2016 o2.13 - Pressenza Athens - publication
      • 2016 02.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLE Kate's Book
      • 2016 01.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLE McBett's Book
    • 2015 >
      • 2015 11.29 sealines writ'inwater UCD
      • 2015 06.04 THE GUILLOTINE PROJECT Notes from the Kingdom ROMA
      • 2015 06.11 LA MIA IMMAGINE TI APPARTIENE exhibition graphic ROMA
      • 2015 DRAWING CIRCLES >
        • 2015 Global Drawing Circle 3 Parul's Book
        • 2015 09.00 GLOBAL DRAWINGS CIRCLE 3 Parul Gupta's book
        • 20015 05.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLE 1 on IRENE UHLEMANN's BOOK
        • 2015 04.00 GLOBAL DRAWING CIRCLE 3 on JIM DAWKIN's book
        • 2015 04.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLES 1 on Kiera O'Toole's book
        • 2015 03.00 GLOBAL DRAWING CIRCLE 3 on Marta Kot's book
        • 2015 02/03.00 IRISH DRAWING CIRCLES 1 McBett book
        • 2015 02.00 GLOBAL DRAWING CIRCLE 3 McBett Book
      • 2015 Arts Council Bill Blog
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      • 2014 11.00 WALTER FACCINI article VITT & DINTORNI magazine
      • 2014 12.03 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS ON DISABILITY Roma
      • 2014 06.30/07.07 FORUM screening/lecture NOVI SAD
      • 2014 05.03 RADIATIONS painting on body DUBLIN
      • 2014 02.14 INKBOOK n.1 painting DUBLIN
      • 2014 01.27/02.03 Carta di Lampedusa
      • 2014 SEALINES Writ' in Water >
        • Charter of Lampedusa - English Version
        • 2014 09 28 SEALINES Writ in Water project Irish Arts Council
    • 2013 >
      • 2013 11.12 Track 14 I'M GLAD TODAY IS MONDAY voice excerpt SEATTLE/DUBLIN phone call
      • 2013 10.03 ACCOGLIENZA (WELCOME) committee 3 October LAMPEDUSA
      • 2013 10.16 RADIO DUBLINO guest DUBLIN
      • 2013 09.21 LIMBO sculpture DUBLIN
      • 2013 09.00 HSP (160) act DUBLIN
      • 2013 08.25 JJ441: Fragility & Strength sculpture WATERFORD2012
      • 2013 05.23 MICROCOSMOS (Kaspar) Video Installation ROMA
      • 2013 00.00 THE SHORE Mural Restaurant La Dolce Vita DUBLIN
    • 2012 >
      • 2012 10.13 Dalla L a Dalla exhibition Teatro del Navile BOLOGNA
      • 2012 09.08 WHITEWASH Installation DUBLIN Mountjoy Sq
      • 2012 06.14/09.30 WASHING... graphic Palazzo Bentivoglio BOLOGNA SpamArt
      • 2012 06.16 WHITEWASH installation Iliocht Co. LEITRIM Festival Pause
      • 2012 06.08 - STEVE-X TRAVELS, a Memorial Gallery
    • WOM 2011/2012 >
      • 2012 08.10 WOM meets PAVEE POINT event DUBLIN
    • 2011 >
      • 2011 11.00 TEATRO VALLE OCCUPATO residence prod ROMA
      • 2011 05.00 Connected_issue51 - press DUBLIN
      • 2011 08.05/07 IMPERFECT PRESENT TENSE Installation S. MARINO Rep. SMIAF Festival
      • 2011 08.05/07 WHITEWASH Interaction SAN MARINO REP. SMIAF festival
    • 2010 >
      • 2010 11.22 THE GUARDIAN press
      • 2010 10.22/28 WHITEWASH interaction, Galerie Oberfkampf, PARIS
      • 2010 10.22/28 DCD Dublin Conversations Drawers SCULPTURE - Galerie Oberfkampf, PARIS
      • 2010 MARCO POLO Reiseführer GERMANY
      • 2010 12.15 DRAWING Dublin
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      • 2009 12.24 PHOOLAN DEVI Poem DUBLIN
      • 2009 CONNECTED MAGAZINE article
      • 2009 OH FRANCIS season 1: Issue 2 article By Sam Keogh
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      • 2008 04.25 S-KIPS 2007 documentary DUBLIN
      • 2008 07.10/24 In/OUT YOUR WINDOW Artist in Prison scheme DUBLIN St Patrick Institute
      • 2008 11.7/9 IMPERFETTO TEMPO PRESENTE Installation TORINO
      • 2008 02.07 SKIP-S documentary ROMA
      • 2008 01.27 WHITENING WITH TRACES OF PRUSSIAN BLUE digital graphic ROMA
      • 2008 SECTIONS ballpen drawings Dublin
    • 2007 >
      • 2007/8 TEACHER adult art classes ST DOMINICK FETAC3
      • 2007 Amy Denio GAP press
      • 2007 11.10 SKIP-S Documentary TORINO
      • 2007 07.07 - 08.23 ArtProcess - Collettiva d'Arte Contemporanea TRAPANI
      • 2007 FOREST FRIENDS
    • 2006 Beckett Centenary Festival >
      • 2006 12.22 MURPHY'S ASHES Installation – Castel Sant’Angelo Roma, Italy
      • 2006 11.01 MURPHY'S ASHES Tarquinia Viterbo, Italy
      • 2006 FIGURE & GROUND graphic WOMEN COOMBE HOSPITAL DUBLIN
      • 2006 10.19/30 ALL OUT solo ROMA
      • 2006 10.14 LEAP INTO THE VOID theatre DUBLIN
      • 2006 05.13/06.30 ALL OUT solo DUBLIN WRITERS MUSEUM
    • 2005 WAY OUT solo exhibition DUBLIN >
      • 2005 STRANGE FRUIT installation DUBLIN
      • 2005 INTERNAL LANDSCAPES >
        • 2005 BEAT REST sculpture DUBLIN
        • 2005 WOMAN OF BEARE sculpture
        • 2005 ITCHI sculpture DUBLIN
        • 2000 EBB sculpture
        • 2005 FOSSIL ECHO sculpture DUBLIN
        • 2005 BROKEN HEARTH sculpture DUBLIN
        • 2005 OUTBURST sculpture
        • 2005 THAW sculpture
        • 2005 FERTILITY sculpture
        • 2005 OPEN MIND sculpture DUBLIN
      • 2005 BOUND BEINGS >
        • 2005 VOICES OF JEANNE sound installation DUBLIN
        • 2005 ODISSEO installation
        • 2005 PROMETEUS sculpture
        • 2005 MURPHY WORK IN PROGRESS scuplture+video installation DUBLIN
        • 2005 GULLIVER sculpture DUBLIN
        • 2005 ERA sculpture
        • 2005 KASPAR installation
        • 2005 SEBASTIEN sculpture >
          • 2005 12.25 fFLESH & BONES photography EU
      • 2005 THREADS video installation DUBLIN
    • 2004 >
      • 2004 10.05/10 ARTS CLUB Performance DUBLIN
    • 2003 >
      • 2003 11.03/12.28 STILL IN PROGRESS solo DUBLIN
      • 2003 07.23 face painting GARDEN PARTY FOR FAMILIES - ÁRAS AN UACHTARÁIN, DUBLIN
      • 2003 GULLIVER sculpture DUBLIN
      • 2003 01/02.00 STRANGE FRUIT press SuccoAcido #14 PALERMO
      • 2003 01.12 /02.09 MANDRAKE exhibition COLUMBUS OHIO
      • 2003 01.09 THE OTHER PAPER OHIO 09-15 article COLUMBUS
    • 2002 >
      • 2002 05.01/07.31 TRESHOLDS solo exhibition IVY HOUSE Dublin
      • 2002 05.01/08.31 THRESHOLD solo DUBLIN
      • 2002 ASTRAL TRAVEL drawing DUBLIN
      • 2002 BERLUSCONI'S MOUSTRAP Film postproduction DUBLIN
    • 2001 >
      • 2001 STRANGE FRUIT installation DUBLIN
      • 2001 11.04 SUNDAY INDEPENDENT press DUBLIN
      • 2001 06.01/07.31 SOUL OF A TREE sculpture Co. CORK
      • 2001 07/08.00 SOUL OF A TREE SSI Newsletter publication IRELAND
    • 2000 >
      • 2000 RURAL TOWN & OTHER TRIPS photography DUBLIN
      • 2000 WHITE BLOSSOM ON PADDY LALLY'S GARDEN sculpture DUBLIN
      • 2000 PIERCED sculpture IONTAS EXHIBITION SLIGO - BELFAST - LIMERICK
      • 2000 MURPHY Sculpture + video installaton DUBLIN CASTLE
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    • 1999 >
      • 1999 WHITE HOLE sculpture DUBLIN
      • 1999 A-GRO BA Theatre SFX
    • 1998 >
      • 1998 04.00 Painting for Restaurant AR VICOLETTO DUBLIN
      • 1998 04.00 MOVING TO DUBLIN
    • 1997 >
      • 1997 03.17 L'AMOR DI LUDMILLA Opera Production ROMA
      • 1997 11.23 AMBRAKOVSKIJ event Production ROMA Ambra Jovinelli
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      • 1994 HON novel ROMA
      • 1994 06.07 I DEMONI DEL TAMBURO taiko Festival ROMA Letteratura
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      • 1993 FIABE X 3D short tales ITALY
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      • 1991 TROEMP L'OEIL interior design ROMA
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      • 1985 HOMAGE TO BORGES graphic ROMA
      • 1985 McBESTIARIUS tales
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      • 1984 DIPLOMA Fine Art Academy in Set Design ROMA
      • 1984 09.00 M.C.ESHER e GLI SCIENZIATI DILETTANTI thesis ROMA
      • 1984 LE DEPEUPLEUR (The Lost Ones) Set Design
      • 1984 02.21 DEFORMAZIONE PROFESSIONALE exhibition ROMA Galleria L. Di Sarro
      • 1984 Study for Le Depeupleur (The lost Ones) ROMA
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    • 1982 GRAPHIC ART Ball Pen Drawings & Collages ITALIA
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2017 06.07 ACCORDING TO THIS RESISTANCE sculpture FERRYBANK, WATERFORD



"The biology laws require cooperation. The finance laws require competition. Therefore, a competitive society is intrinsically pathological.
The Competition is the exact opposite of the Resonance: how can I resound with someone, if I must compete with them because I win or they win? Until it exists a regime based on competition between human beings the issue of happiness can't be ever resolved
"
Emilio Del Giudice - physicist


Picture
 
 "So he went. According to Pereira on that occasion he forgot to pay his bill. He got to his feet in a daze, his thoughts elsewhere, and simply walked out, leaving his newspaper on the table along with his hat, maybe because it was so hot he didn't want to wear it anyway, or else because he was like that, objects didn't mean much to him"
from Antonio Tabucchi: According To Pereira


7th June 2017   @ 5:30 - 7:00

Presentation in Kilkenny Library
Ferrybank   (in Waterford):

 

Short video by Therese Dalton, Film Director;


Pat Cooke, UCD, Director of the MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management;


Anthony E. Walsh, Managing Director, NM Proactive Solutions Ltd, co-author of the book Understanding Suicide;


McBett, Artist

"Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. -But which is the stone that supports the bridge?- Kublai Khan asks. -The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,- Marco answers, -but by the line of the arch that they form.- Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: -Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.- Polo answers: -Without stones there is no arch.-"   
from Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities


Some contributions :
 

Tony Walsh's personal review :

The first thing that struck me about Eli’s sculpture is that it is mainly a glass
structure regardless of it being just a wall of glass jars. Light and glass
complement each other and the way the light hits this glass creation also gives an
amazing effect. Glass is used in so many settings and has so many uses.
Throughout time glass has been used for ornamentation and to make vessels for
celebration and allow light to connect with us through windows. We also have
stained glass like in the amazing art of Harry Clark that have been used in
churches to enhance a sacred space. When we look closer at this creation by Eli we
see that this glass is actually rows of different separate, unique and individual glass
jars and that is what makes this sculpture particularly interesting for me.
Eli's choice of material was perfect for what she set out to achieve
What is contained within the jars cannot be easily discerned. This is reflective of
the inner world of the human being. We might get a glimpse of what lies within 
another person but we certainly won’t be privy to the details and the depth of a
person’s thought, feelings, fears, losses and dreams.
Glass properties – Analogy with the person
The properties of glass can be closely related to a person’s essence also. So many
of us conceal aspects that are very fragile. Like glass, while it presents a hard
exterior to the world, we can be easily shattered. Sometimes we can be too
transparent when we don’t want people to see through us. We can feel so
vulnerable when our cracks and blemishes and warts and all become visible to 
others. Society places a requirement on us to be perfect, to be without blemish but
for many of us there are too many cracks and dents to hide.
After researching for the book Understanding Suicide the extent of this fragility
and pain felt by so many became very apparent. (Suicide is really just a symptom
and the end point of what we really need to be examining. Along with the 500-600
who die by suicide, up to 12,000 present at A&E annually for self-harming and
attempted suicide, an estimated 120,000 who self-harm or attempt suicide but are
dealt with privately and 1 in 4 people are on antidepressants).
Just as glass is adaptable as a medium under the right conditions, human beings
have also proved to be very adaptable. However, the individuality and uniqueness
of each person can be shown to be restricted and constricted by society’s
structures. We have the illusion of diversity but in reality there is societal pressure
to conform to a desired sameness. This is well represented in Eli’s sculpture by the
functional wingnuts that hold the glass jars in place.
What Eli has done here is to brilliantly encapsulate the deep desires and yearning
of every human being: for, on the one hand self-expression while also having a
sense of belonging within the community, for inner healing and letting go of the 
past as well as dreaming and envisioning a better future. Maybe there is a clear
message here to break through our resistance to change, to become more
transparent and to let in more light and have the courage to do this. Rather than 
pigeon-holing or generalising aspects of life, we need to learn to embrace life in all
its complexity.


some inspiring further poetry I tripped in recently

Poetry is a celestial attack

I'm not here but at the depths of this not being here
There is a waiting for myself
And this vigil is another way of being here a waiting
For myself to come back into myself
While waiting I go out
Into other
Objects
In this going out I give away a little of my life
To certain trees certain stones
That have been waiting for me
All these years

Tired of waiting they have given up hope and fallen back
Into themselves
I'm not and I am
I'm not here and I am here
In a waiting
State
They wanted
My language
To express them
And I wanted theirs
To express
Them
And in this lay the mistake the great
Error
This pathetic state
Carving myself deeper into these plants
My clothes falling away from my bones
My bones re-clothing themselves in bark
I'm beginning to feel like I've become
A tree I've been changing myself
Into so many other things how dolorous
How tender
I could cry out but this cry would frighten away the desired
Transubstantiation
Must keep silent Waiting completely
Silent

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (1893-1948): La Poesía es un atentado celeste from Últimos Poemas (Later Poems), 1948; English version by Tom Clark


Mementos from:
Aaron Dowreg; Aidan Bannon; Aideen Ní Riada (Confidence in Singing); Àine Garrelly; Ali O'Brei; Alison Freary; Alison Martin; Angelo Fardello; Ann Hogan; Anna Pospieszynska; Anne Killeen; Anne O'Neill; Anne Russell; Annie Flynn; Annie Lynott; Aoibhinn O'Dea; Ben Rilot; Betty Kavanagh; Boys of Finglas; Bryony Cameron; Callie O'Bernes; Caju Oliveira; Cecilia Dinhelman; Chaelio Thomas; Craig O Reilly; Daniel Kleppa; Danny Ahearn; Dari Shechter; Daryl Smith; Des Gunning; Elaine Ellis; Eleanor Stewart; Elena De Natale; Elena Jimenca Trillo; Ellie Baker; Elton Dinino; Else Videball; Eoghan Riordan; Eoin Ò Fearghail; Erivestas Gaidqkeviciks; Evelin Velazquez; Federica; Flinn Shannon; Forest Friends/Radio Enviro; Giulia Rapino; Giuseppe Crupi; Kamran, Karen Donnellan; Keith Irish (Waterford Healing Art Trust); Kevin Malone; Ian O'Shea; Icelsie Rose; Iracy Pickevill; Irene Doval Marcos; Irene Rogli; Iriane Sena; Iseult Byrne; Laura Tello; Liubov Kadyrova; Lorena Lampedecchia; Lucia Dapena; Luke; Joanna Niec; Jessica Doyle; John Cotter;  Jonny Tennant; Justice for Madgalenes (Mary Creighton Wong); Justina; Ju Yun Ju; Malgosia Przeworska; Marco Pizzolato; Mario D'Alessandro; Mary Kiely; Matthew Vutton; Maurice Caplice; Maurizio; McBett; Michelle Belardenelli; Naomi Murphy; Nathan McDonghel; New Ross Bagpipe Band; New Ross Library (Patricia Keenan); Nicola Brady; Paddy Maron; Ran Stokes; Rana Örtürk; Robert Brown; Robi Cornaggia; Rosi Leonard; Ross Art and Music Collective R.A.M.P. (Conor Coresh); Sally Cotter; Sean; Silvia Loeffer; Siòna Cameron; Simon Luque; Sinèad Fitzgerald; Sofie Bork; Sondess Azzabi; S.P.A.M. ART (VIttorio Pavoncello); Standing Rock Indian Reservation; Stephen Blaupls; Tom McNally; Tuilelaith; Ùna Williams; Wumerson Silra

Thank you for the support to Jim Farrell (Ferribank Shopping Centre); Keith Irish ( Waterford Healing Arts Trust); Majella Byrne (Kilkenny County Library, Ferrybank)



 Pat Cooke's quotes Derek Mahon's poem:  A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

(Let them not forget us, the weak souls among the asphodels.
                                                                   — Seferis, Mythistorema)

(for J. G. Farrell)

Even now there are places where a thought might grow --
Peruvian mines, worked out and abandoned
To a slow clock of condensation,
An echo trapped for ever, and a flutter
Of wildflowers in the lift-shaft,
Indian compounds where the wind dances
And a door bangs with diminished confidence,
Lime crevices behind rippling rain barrels,
Dog corners for bone burials;
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford,

Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,
Among the bathtubs and the washbasins
A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.
This is the one star in their firmament
Or frames a star within a star.
What should they do there but desire?
So many days beyond the rhododendrons
With the world waltzing in its bowl of cloud,
They have learnt patience and silence
Listening to the rooks querulous in the high wood.

They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.
He never came back, and light since then
Is a keyhole rusting gently after rain.
Spiders have spun, flies dusted to mildew
And once a day, perhaps, they have heard something --
A trickle of masonry, a shout from the blue
Or a lorry changing gear at the end of the lane.

There have been deaths, the pale flesh flaking
Into the earth that nourished it;
And nightmares, born of these and the grim
Dominion of stale air and rank moisture.
Those nearest the door grow strong --
‘Elbow room! Elbow room!’
The rest, dim in a twilight of crumbling
Utensils and broken pitchers, groaning
For their deliverance, have been so long
Expectant that there is left only the posture.

A half century, without visitors, in the dark --
Poor preparation for the cracking lock
And creak of hinges; magi, moonmen,
Powdery prisoners of the old regime,
Web-throated, stalked like triffids, racked by drought
And insomnia, only the ghost of a scream
At the flash-bulb firing-squad we wake them with
Shows there is life yet in their feverish forms.
Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms,
They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.

They are begging us, you see, in their wordless way,
To do something, to speak on their behalf
Or at least not to close the door again.
Lost people of Treblinka and Pompeii!
‘Save us, save us,’ they seem to say,
‘Let the god not abandon us
Who have come so far in darkness and in pain.
We too had our lives to live.
You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,
Let not our naive labours have been in vain!’
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