That killed head straining through the windscreen
with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets
is not trying to tell you something—
it is telling you something.


'Poem on the Obliteration of 100,000 Iraqi Soldiers' (1994)

Helen Dunmore Quotes

That killed head straining through the windscreen with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets is not trying to tell you something— it is telling...

That killed head straining through the windscreen with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets is not trying to tell you something— it is telling...

That killed head straining through the windscreen with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets is not trying to tell you something— it is telling...

That killed head straining through the windscreen with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets is not trying to tell you something— it is telling...