Have you seen the Guernica?
I've seen a study for the work, Weeping Woman with Handkerchief
at the LACMA.
In contrast to the grand painting, this compact piece features color,
green, purple, yellow.
I cannot speak for what horrors Dora Maar evoked while sitting for this study,
but I have become familiar with despair.
One of yesterday's Democracy Now articles speak of an 11-year-old shot
in the chest.
Mourners, children themselves, faces as if in cubist perspective, are photographed:
farmers tans, a small temporary tattoo, a puma dad hat.
Gaza has the world's highest concentration of child amputees.
I cannot speak for their despair.
The Guernica is a monstrous monochrome mural that lives quietly now
in Madrid.
The figure from the Weeping Woman study weeps, clutching
a limp child, another victim, the future.
Chaos, desolation, terror reign in black and white and black,
no bloodshed needed to illustrate despair.
Have you seen the Guernica?
gaza soup kitchen is doing excellent work in gaza, where genocide continues.