Saturday, April 25, 2015

This is ANZAC Day


Gallipoli
Peninsula




     You stand up, but I get there
     first and lift the child up..
     This is my heart, and there is
     no convincing way to explain
     abandoning your own heart. Just
     disguises to assume. Just vary-
     ing levels of lies to tell.






























Joakim Zander
Simmaren
Wahlström & Widstrand
2013
Elizabeth Clark Wessel
  translation
Harper Collins, 2015©

i   Imperial War Museum
ii  Canberra Memorial, BBC
iii Herbert List, Naples, 1959








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