Shattered Glass (Joseph Ceravolo: "Dark inside me every day...")

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Relatives of one of the victims of the previous day’s blast at Istanbul Ataturk airport mourn in front of a morgue in Istanbul, Turkey: photo by Rosman Orsal / Reuters. 29 June 2016

 

Joseph Ceravolo: "Dark inside me every day..."

                                               

                        July 28, 1987

Dark inside me every day

I am nothing to be

or see, or hear, compared

to what I am not here.

Because what I am, I am not,

and what I am not   I disappear

like light through dark:

Dark inside me every day.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Untitled ("Dark inside me every day..."), 28 July 1987, from Collected Poems, 2012

TURKEY - A bullet impact on a window at Ataturk airport in Istanbul, a day after a suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

 #TurkeyAttack Bullet impacts are pictured on a window at Ataturk airport's International terminal #AFP Photo by @ozannkosee: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 29 June 2016

 Shattered glass from Tuesday’s suicide bombings at Istanbul’s main airport. The Turkish government blamed the Islamic State for the attack.: photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

 

Shattered glass from Tuesday’s suicide bombings at Istanbul’s main airport. The Turkish government blamed the Islamic State for the attack.: photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, 29 June 2016

Islamic State prime suspect in Istanbul airport attack: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 29 June 2016

Clearing debris in the cordoned off area of the airport. The chaos enveloping Turkey, including the series of attacks and an enormous influx of refugees that has strained resources, vividly illustrates how the civil war in Syria has rippled outward and destabilized neighboring countries.: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016



Clearing debris in the cordoned off area of the airport. The chaos enveloping Turkey, including the series of attacks and an enormous influx of refugees that has strained resources, vividly illustrates how the civil war in Syria has rippled outward and destabilized neighboring countries.: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

A terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul left dozens dead. Officials blamed Islamic State militants, but the group has not claimed responsibility.: photo by  Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 29 July 2016

 

A terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul left dozens dead. Officials blamed Islamic State militants, but the group has not claimed responsibility.: photo by  Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 29 July 2016

#Turkey A mother of victims reacts after Istanbul airport suicide attack. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 29 June 2016

Turkey - People assist a mother who lost a relative a day after Istanbul airport suicide attack. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

Relatives of victims outside a hospital in Istanbul. Early Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that early indications suggested that the Islamic State was behind the latest attack, although officials still had not released any information about the attackers by Wednesday afternoon.: photo by Defne Karadeniz via The New York Times, 29 June 2016

A triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has killed at least 36 people, including foreigners, with Turkey’s prime minister saying early signs pointed to an assault by ISIL.: photo by Emrah Gurel / AP, 29 June 2016 

Relatives of one of the victims at the forensic morgue in Istanbul. A majority of the victims appeared to be Muslims, either Turks or visitors from Muslim countries.: photo by Defne Karadeniz via the New York Times, 28 June 2016

Relatives of one of the victims at the forensic morgue in Istanbul. A majority of the victims appeared to be Muslims, either Turks or visitors from Muslim countries.: photo by Defne Karadeniz via the New York Times, 28 June 2016

Hours after the attack, a limited number of flights resumed, and workers continued clearing debris and replacing shattered windows at the airport: photo by Associated Press, 29 June 2016

Hours after the attack, a limited number of flights resumed, and workers continued clearing debris and replacing shattered windows at the airport: photo by Associated Press, 29 June 2016

 The attack prompted the temporary suspension of all flights at the airport -- one of Europe’s busiest hubs: photo by Defne Karadeniz via the National, 29 June 2016

 Passengers leave on a bus from Istanbul’s Ataturk airport. Attackers began spraying bullets at the international terminal entrance before blowing themselves up at around 10pm Tuesday.: photo by Emrah Gurel / AP, 29 June 2016

 Workers repair the damaged parts of the terminal building at Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, following an attack by three suicide bombers the day before.: photo by Goran Tomasevic / Reuters, 29 June 2016

Workers wash the road in front of the Ataturk airport: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 29 June 2016



Workers wash the road in front of the Ataturk airport: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 29 June 2016
 

The funeral of Mohammad Eymen Demirci on Wednesday in Istanbul, a day after a suicide attack on Ataturk airport killed him and at least 40 others: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

The funeral of Mohammad Eymen Demirci on Wednesday in Istanbul, a day after a suicide attack on Ataturk airport killed him and at least 40 others: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016 

TURKEY - People carry the coffin of airport suicide attack victim in Istanbul during his funeral. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 June 2016

 Cabins for tourists are seen on the grasslands on the outskirt of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: photo by, Jason Lee / Reuters, 29 June 2016

 Water is released from the floodgates of the Xiaolangdi dam on the Yellow River near Luoyang, in China’s Henan province. The floodgates are opened every year in an operation to flush millions of tonnes of silt from the river bed.: photo by Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2016

San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Belt breaks his bat while grounding out against the Oakland Athletics in the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco: photo by Jeff Chiu/Associated Press, 28 June 2016

Gregor Blanco of the San Francisco Giants is hit by a pitch from Marc Rzepczynski of the Oakland Athletics during the sixth inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California: photo by Jason O. Watson/AFP, 28 June 2016

Herder Shagdarjaviiu Batsargal carries an injured sheep in the Gobi desert near Luusiin, Mongolia, on June 28, 2016. Mongolians went to the polls across their sprawling, sparsely populated country on June 29. The country is more than twice the size of France, but with a population of only three million. Lorries with mobile ballot boxes crisscrossed the vast steppe to enable the sick and elderly to vote, while herders and others streamed to polling stations set up in gers, the traditional Mongolian tents.: photo by Johannes Eisele / Agence France-Presse. 29 June 2016

MONGOLIA - A man rides his horse next to a ger near Zuunmod south of Ulan Bator. By @johaynz #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 29 June 2016

 

 Masked Palestinians gather during clashes with Israeli police during the holy month of Ramadan near The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 28 June 2016



Masked Palestinians gather during clashes with Israeli police during the holy month of Ramadan near The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 28 June 2016

 We do not want just a few [scraps] of life in Aleppo Ph: Baraa Al Halabi #STOPRUSSIA: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 27 June 2016

[Kurdish PKK fighter, Syria]: photo by Joey L. via Joey L.Verified account@joeyldotcom, 29 June 2016

@joeyldotcom's photos of Kurdish #PKK Fighters Deleted by #instagram #TwitterKurds: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 19 September 2015

#Turkey Shocked reactions as riot police fire rubber bullets at an #LGBT community rally in #Istanbul By @ozannkosee: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 June 2016

#Israel Tank fire during Israeli army manoeuvres near the border with #Syria. BY @menahemkahana @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 29 June 2016

#Athens A woman sits next to tents at the unofficial camp for #refugees at the old airport. By @lgouliam @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 27 June 2016

At the Euronext Stock Exchange in Paris’s financial district, the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union.: photo by Thomas Samson/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

 

At the Euronext Stock Exchange in Paris’s financial district, the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union.: photo by Thomas Samson/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

People walk past a mural on a restaurant wall depicting U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greeting each other with a kiss in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Kestutis Girnius, associate professor of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius university, told AFP “This graffiti expresses the fear of some Lithuanians that Donald Trump is likely to kowtow to Vladimir Putin and be indifferent to Lithuania’s security concerns. Trump has notoriously stated that Putin is a strong leader, and that NATO is obsolete and expensive.”: photo by Petras Malukas / AFP, 13 May 2016  
 

 
UK - Donald Trump kisses Boris Johnson on a mural in Bristol. By @geoff_caddick #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 May 2016

"My God, help me to survive this deadly love" (Thomas Hardy: Channel Firing)

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Pakistani stockbrokers rest during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) in Karachi: photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP, 28 June 2016



Pakistani stockbrokers rest during a trading session at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) in Karachi: photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP, 28 June 2016

 

The British flag is being replaced by the European Union flag following the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium: photo by Thierry Charlier/AFP, 28 June 2016



The British flag is being replaced by the European Union flag following the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium: photo by Thierry Charlier/AFP, 28 June 2016

A schoolgirl reacts to rainwater being splashed on her, in a flooded street in Mumbai, India: photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP, 28 June 2016



A schoolgirl reacts to rainwater being splashed on her, in a flooded street in Mumbai, India: photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP, 28 June 2016

 
 Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain arriving at a summit meeting of European leaders in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters, 28 June 2016



 Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain arriving at a summit meeting of European leaders in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters, 28 June 2016  

Thomas Hardy: Channel Firing

That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,

And broke the chancel window-squares,

We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome

Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,

The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No;

It’s gunnery practice out at sea

Just as before you went below;

The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make

Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters

They do no more for Christés sake

Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour

For some of them’s a blessed thing,

For if it were they’d have to scour

Hell’s floor for so much threatening....

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when

I blow the trumpet (if indeed

I ever do; for you are men,

And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder,

Will the world ever saner be,”

Said one, “than when He sent us under

In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head.

“Instead of preaching forty year,”

My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,

“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour,

Roaring their readiness to avenge,

As far inland as Stourton Tower,

   And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

     Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Channel Firing, April 1914, from Satires of Circumstance, 1914

 


Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, left, with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by John Thys/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016 

 

 Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, left, with Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday: photo by John Thys/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016  



EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talks to UKIP leader Nigel Farage at the EU headquarters in Brussels #Brexit: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 28 June 2016

Nigel Farage greeted European Commission President Juncker in the European Parliament this morning. Mr Juncker told the Ukip leader he was surprised to see him in Brussels after last week's Brexit vote.: photo by Reuters, 28 June 2016

Nigel Farage greeted European Commission President Juncker in the European Parliament this morning. Mr Juncker told the Ukip leader he was surprised to see him in Brussels after last week's Brexit vote.: photo by Reuters, 28 June 2016

East Berlin Wall: photo by Dave R, 4 June 2012

The Kiss of Death. "God help us to survive this deadly love affair." (Friedrichshain, Berlin): photo by momo, 6 September 2015

A cyclist looks at a mural depicting Donald Trump and the former London mayor Boris Johnson, a “Brexit” supporter, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, England. The mural, echoing an iconic image of the Communist leaders Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, was conceived by the We Are Europe initiative to motivate young people to vote Remain. and was created by Bristol underground artist Felix Braun, 47, a descendant of German immigrants.: photo by Neil Munns/European Pressphoto Agency, 30 May 2016

A cyclist looks at a mural depicting Donald Trump and the former London mayor Boris Johnson, a “Brexit” supporter, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, England. The mural, echoing an iconic image of the Communist leaders Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, was conceived by the We Are Europe initiative to motivate young people to vote Remain. and was created by Bristol underground artist Felix Braun, 47, a descendant of German immigrants.: photo by Neil Munns/European Pressphoto Agency, 30 May 2016

East German President Erich Honecker embraces Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev during festivities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany: photo by Regis Bossu, 1979



The largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has long been an open-air exhibit called the East Side Gallery. One of its most famous paintings showed former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker.: photo by Reuters via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016

 

The picture inspired many visitors to replicate the scene, as in this 1995 photo: photo by AP 1995 via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016


 
The painting, however, is no mlonger to be seen. Authorities recently removed it as part of renovation work on the monument. Only the picture's inscription, "My God, help me to survive this deadly love," is left at the top of the wall.: photo by Irina Slintchuk via Spiegel Online, 27 March 2016

Explosions rocked Turkey’s largest airport on Tuesday night, according to Turkish authorities and television reports: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

 

Explosions rocked Turkey’s largest airport on Tuesday night, according to Turkish authorities and television reports: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

A Turkish government official said that the police fired shots at suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The suspects then blew themselves up, the official said.: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 28 June 2016

 

A Turkish government official said that the police fired shots at suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The suspects then blew themselves up, the official said.: photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters, 28 June 2016

People waited with their luggage outside the airport after the attack: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

 

People waited with their luggage outside the airport after the attack: photo by Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016 


TURKEY - Passengers embrace outside Ataturk airport after Istanbul suicide attack. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 28 June 2016

Turkish special forces members secured the area after an attack at Ataturk airport in Istanbul. Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings since 2014, and they have been increasing in frequency.: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

 

Turkish special forces members secured the area after an attack at Ataturk airport in Istanbul. Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings since 2014, and they have been increasing in frequency.: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

Bodies lay in the street outside the terminal after the attack at Ataturk airport: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

 

Bodies lay in the street outside the terminal after the attack at Ataturk airport: photo by Ilhas News Agency, via Agence France-Presse, 28 June 2016

Crime scene investigators collected evidence on Tuesday night at Ataturk airport: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

 

Crime scene investigators collected evidence on Tuesday night at Ataturk airport: photo by Sedat Suna/European Pressphoto Agency, 28 June 2016

 
TURKEY - A riot police officer patrols Ataturk airport's entrance in Istanbul after suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

 
TURKEY - Anti-riot police officers block entrance of Ataturk airport in Istanbul after suicide attack. By @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

@GailSimone What about Batman being attacked by duck-face? #deathkiss: image via Juliette @ElusiveJ, 17 January 2014

 Fredo se que fuiste tu, Fredo. me rompiste el corazón Fredo. M.C. #michaelcorleone #godfather #fredo #deathkiss: image via Gerardo Félix @Geras4849, 12 September 2013

@FotoCinephila Sin duda alguna @charly2d2 @rodasons @darbon @8yomismo #DeathKiss #Godfather2 #peloscomoescarpias: image via Alberto Serra @_aserra, Juliette @ElusiveJ, 21 August 2014

The Kiss of the Sphinx: Franz von Stuck, 1890-1914, charcoal, pastel and chalk on grey paper, 520 x 460 mm (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)


  Scenes from the Life of Christ: 15. The Arrest of Christ (detail): Giotto di Bondone, 1304-06, fresco (Cappella Scrovegni, Padua)



Death and the Maiden: Hans Baldung Grien, 1518-20, oil on panel, 31 x 19 cm (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel)  

MEXICO - Graffiti against US Donald Trump painted on the embankment of Bravo River in Ciudad Juarez. By Jesus Alcaza: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 June 2016

Sheep graze at sunset in Dalanzadgad, in the southern Gobi desert: photo by Johannes Eisele / AFP, 28 June 2016