Magpie Tales 100

Sculptures by  Jason Decaires Taylor

I found Jason Decaires Taylor's unwater sculpture gardens disturbing when I first ran across them on the internet. Maybe I downed in a former life. But this week after the disaster of the Italian Cruise ship that overturned they are all that more unsettling.

Cry the dead

The drowned

from their watery grave

silently scream

in the bubbles rising to the surface.

The surface

they will never again see

seals itself

over their deep decent. 

The waves

go on about their path to the shore

not touching

the silent abyss below.

Cry the dead

no more from beneath the waves

ring the bells ashore

time to say goodbye.

J. Binford-Bell

January 2010

In Memory of the dead and missing of the capsized Costa Concordia

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