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Otto Dix

by George Hoerner

you hang there
on the wall alone
except for those watching
the 1914 catharsis

from a distance almost
just a black sheet of paper
with few spots of white

night as black as no light with
the deafening sound of death
surrounding screams of terror

occasional flashes from shells
highlight pock marked ground
as mother earth tries
to absorb the pain of war

your tortured mind reflects
the release of fear
through the memory
of black and white
with few shades of gray

you etch in the mind
for all who care to see
that war leaves scares
upon the land
real and imagined

01/15/2005

Author's Note: After a print 'Crater field at Dontrien', lit by fireballs Etching with aquatint on copperplate paper 1924 Otto Dix, Germany, 1891-1969

Posted on 01/16/2009
Copyright © 2024 George Hoerner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 01/16/09 at 02:56 AM

Fascinating and just excellent all around, man.

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 01/16/09 at 03:01 AM

You have eeked much from the stark image. Together they do create the well defined hell that was WWI. Excellent. Thanks.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/16/09 at 05:21 AM

I must now go and find this image. This gives goose bumps.

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