Poem: ‘Ben’s Photo’
Lee Harwood, 5 April 2012
for Kelvin Corcoran
Just off the main square at the entrance to a crowded narrow street – this is in Bologna, 1992 – a man stood erect, hands behind his back, watching something, or just waiting.
A man about 60 or 70, wearing a cloth cap, an old suit jacket, a worn but neatly ironed shirt, neatly buttoned. No tie. An afternoon in winter.
Don’t know why. This moment that...