The Granary – v2

I met evil, coming indoors

from the bright summer day

on the Vineyard, so long ago.

His eyes were full of hate;

Exposed, naked in the photograph

his tortured, twisted soul laid bare.

What must it have been the photographer,

the Jew looking through the lens.

The emulsion coming to dark life

in the quickening of the darkroom;

So disconcerting, even on the glossy page,

evil incarnate, glaring right through me.

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edited April 25, 2015

Black and White – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/black-and-white-v2.html

September 4, 2006 19:05

Black and White

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/09/black-and-white.html

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edited April 25, 2015

The Granary – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-granary-v2.html

January 30, 2010

The Granary

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/granary.html

This poem is about my memory,

of the jarring sensation

seeing a photograph circa 1994,

of one of the all-time

great pictures, capturing evil,

before it rose up to full flowering

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm,

http://www.granarygallery.com/title.php?titleID=10005991

of Joseph Goebbels,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels,

in 1933 at the League of Nations

Life Magazine article about the photo

http://life.time.com/history/goebbels-in-geneva-1933-behind-a-classic-alfred-eisenstaedt-photo/#1

on display at The Granary Gallery

(http://www.granarygallery.com/),

on Martha’s Vineyard

taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),

http://www.gallerym.com/collections/alfred-eisenstaedt/

a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.

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