Sonnet on a statue. -The Voice before the Void

“Michael Angelo‘s ‘Dawn'”

Margaret Steele Anderson

Battle of Verdun Anniversary: In commemoration of World War I and of all wars On 1916 February 21 commenced the ten-month battle that would have a million or more people disfigured, maimed, obliterated, and dissolved into the mud of the Verdun battleground; thousands will never be located or identified. Verdun endures as a symbol of the cost of war, the waste of war, the futility of war, the crime of war. In this poem, Binyon reflects upon the sight of five maimed soldiers at the Battle of Verdun. -The Voice before the Void

“Men of Verdun”

Laurence Binyon

Sounds dirty. -The Voice before the Void

“Knight-Errant”

Madison Cawein

All encompassed within a shadow round. -The Voice before the Void

“At a Lunar Eclipse”

Thomas Hardy

Extemporizing. “…legitimately chilling.” Do not teach it. Do not seek to comprehend it. If you comprehend it, live on as best you can, and do not teach it. -The Voice before the Void

The Dangerous Forbidden Knowledge of No-Personhood

The Voice before the Void