Comments on: Transplant

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:13:07 +0000

Hi, Bee. Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad the poem moved you, and yes, war always does the most damage to children, I think. It’s time we stopped pretending that was merely collateral, a tragic mistake – it’s an inevitable consequence of waging war.

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How to Save the World — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:04:49 +0000

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By: Bee

Bee — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:47:05 +0000

Your wonder-full poem is a fitting tribute to this stunning picture. We usually use the word “stunning” to describe something beautiful, and it is beautiful in its way (the composition, the linked arms, the angelic child — all wrapped up; sad, special delivery in reverse), but it stuns in the true sense of the word.

All of that jockeying for position, for security (ha!)and space, comes down to this: a child’s death. Many, many deaths.

By: leslee

leslee — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:54:51 +0000

Beautiful.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:26:28 +0000

Thanks to all of you for reading and commenting, and welcome to Robb and Jeremy. (Robb, that’s a stunner of a blog you have!)

I don’t much like, though, any connection of this beautiful person with broken sewers
I hadn’t thought of that. Good point.

By: Robb

Robb — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:08:10 +0000

Kia ora Dave,
I, too, sit here a bit stunned and so moved, imagining myself placing my own little boy in the ground and not being able to let go. There are many here I will share this with.
Rangimarie,
Robb

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:37:05 +0000

Stunning.

By: Jeremy Dubois

Jeremy Dubois — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:44:29 +0000

As a parent looking at this photo realize our children are the only things that really matter in our lives. I look around at the world today an wonder what legacy we are leaving for them…..certainly not an ideal one!

By: robin andrea

robin andrea — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:50:14 +0000

That photograph is as haunting as any I’ve ever seen, and these words tear at my heart.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:44:37 +0000

I wonder what that little girl will bring forth? I just can’t imagine giving anything as beautiful as her to the ground.

Taken in part, this is the most hopeful, beautiful, transformative view on death I ever felt included in. Thank you. I don’t much like, though, any connection of this beautiful person with broken sewers; that’s hard, and I have to work on that.

As you write, you have no answers. Somehow your honest writing of that breaks the thing back into the sunshine, the days of play, and redoubles the grief of the living that is lost.