Mounds of human heads are wandering into the distance.
I dwindle among them. Nobody sees me.
But in books much loved, and in children's games
I shall rise from the dead
To say the sun is shining.
Osip Mandelshtam
Memorial Day Includes All of Us
Posted: 5/27/2018 7:06:49 PM
Posted: 5/27/2018 8:55:54 PM
Christopher, text and painting are an interesting association. The Jewish poet Mandelstam lost his life in a Siberian gulag because he had blamed dictator Stalin in a poem. The painting was part of the Eastside Gallery here in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kani_Alavi#/media/File:Es_geschah_im_November_by_Kani_Alavi.jpg
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