tracy k smith letter to a photojournalist going in Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
how important photojournalism is to him
A
“you go to the pain city after city”
2
Q
the violence he endures
A
“when they …kick at your gut”
3
Q
he longs for some normality
A
“people close their mouths and run backwards out of frame”
3
Q
image of the horrors he sees
A
“bodies blown open like curtains”
4
Q
she wants to love him
A
“your voice fits my ear like a secret”
5
Q
she finds difficulty loving him as he has become engulfed by war
A
“but who can hear two things at once”
6
Q
the narrator becomes nihilistic
A
“….grind itself to dust”
7
Q
the photojournalistic wants to continue with his job
A
“i think youre right wanting to lose everything and wander like a blind king”
8
Q
personification of trust
A
“if trust is another human trick that’ll lick its lips and laugh as it backs away”
