There's No Forgetting

Reflections on Anzac Day, Guernica, and the wars we carry

Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso

There’s No Forgetting

There’s No Forgetting (Sonata)
by Pablo Neruda

If you should ask me where I've been all this time
I have to say "Things Happen."
I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth,
on the river ruined in its own duration:
I know nothing save the things the birds have lost,
the sea I left behind, or my sister cryin…