Jack Picone - #30 - War Trauma
© Photograph by Jack Picone
A young Bosnian girl outside her family home during the conflict in former Yugoslavia.The fields around her farm house were extensively mined. Leaving and entering the farm was fraught-filled. She, like many of the young during the conflict, was malnourished and suffered from trauma.
A young Bosnian girl outside her family home during the conflict in former Yugoslavia.The fields around her farm house were extensively mined. Leaving and entering the farm was fraught-filled. She, like many of the young during the conflict, was malnourished and suffered from trauma.
Another powerful, heart-breaking photo, Jack. Here's a poem I posted here a couple months ago...
ReplyDeleteSTARI MOST
In Southern Bosnia
where I first knew you
where there was so much death
there was a beautiful bridge
you can't kill memory
where there is a beautiful bridge
this is a story about Mostar
a story about Stari Most
but no, it's a story about us
and the fight we had
on the beautiful bridge
and how I swore to you
we would both grow old
there would be no war
you didn't listen (I remember)
you kept on slapping me
we got home we didn't speak
we made japrak and chorba
we cried and held each other tight
later they tortured you
then they killed you
it was a beautiful bridge
all the water gone
of course I write this.
Ha, Mostar... heart-breaking and beautiful poem Rob.
DeleteRead it a few more time......haunting.
DeleteGood on you for listening & remembering.
Deletea brilliant haunting photo. The shadows of the tree and the other children (?) which frame her make her look like she is the ghost returned to her farmhouse, and that the living are the shadows just to her right oblivious to her presence. Unheimlich. Unhomely/uncanny. Too brilliant and moving for words (at this moment).
ReplyDeleteThank you Efi. Too generous. Yes, the shadows are of siblings that she at age 10 was tasked with caring for, along with her mother. The father was off fighting the war.
DeleteYes, very haunting. There seems to be a bit of anger in that sad face as well.
ReplyDeleteIt was haunting Eva. She was incredibly hyper and stressed - understandably.
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