Kit Kelen - for a Series with Jack Picone's photographs - #28 - Sarajevo

28

Sarajevo

dodging

sniper shot

mortar

machine gun fire

launched rockets

dodging

bombs from the air

and just our luck

the town was always

some kind of wedding

mosque and synagogue

churches and fountains

markets and baths

the town was always

some kind of union

death, divorce parts

and here's love among the ruins

red resin – Sarajevo rose

wedding of the bullet

with the Prince

so centuries were wed here

take one world down

another comes

Sarajevo

the word is a poem

the plains around the palace

the governor's castle

this Jerusalem

Damascus

river rock

hear hills sing

always

some kind

of wedding

here

a life and death thing

the red line –

11,541 chairs empty

1,500 of them children

sniper shot

mortar

machine gun fire

launched rockets

bombs from the air

and that was just their luck