After Lebanon

When the war is over, that’s when

the real war will begin.

When everyone else has forgotten

there was a war, when the news is talking

about other wars. When the war is over

there will be the war of remembering

and forgetting, the war

of trying to sleep and trying to awaken, the war

of standing each morning at the window

where sunlight still enters and floods the room,

and looking outside

one more day at all

that is not there to return to.

From the Fall 2007 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 24, No. 1)

Anita Barrows has published several award-winning volumes of poetry, including translations from French, Italian and German. Since 1993, she has been translating Rilke with Joanna Macy. A clinical psychologist and a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, she is also a serious amateur musician and singer and a grandmother.

Catherine Eaton Skinner divides her time between studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Seattle. Her paintings, encaustics and monotypes use a full-color palette, transparent layers, and texture from collage elements and worked wax. Skinner is well represented in private and corporate collections across the country. Her work, resume and schedule of shows are at ceskinner.com.

By Anita Barrows

From the Fall 2007 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 24, No. 1)

Poem © 2007 Anita Barrows

Art: Run Away © Catherine Eaton Skinner. Mylar, encaustic on panel, 24 x 11 x 2 inches. Used by permission.

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