For description and discussion
1. A burnt-out tank
2. A crying child
3. A murdered woman
4. Abandoned houses
5. Empty streets
6. Messages passed hand-to-hand
7. Poems scribbled on scraps of paper
8. Cold ashes
9. Words blowing in the wind
Political reform
a flattened and
vanishing perspective
market economy
shot to pieces
ruined houses
full of strangers
neighbours missing
life shrivelled up
knowledge absent
blank newspaper pages
love a secret
kept to oneself
ignorance
our only friend
Seven soundtracks to the revolution
1. The wolf howling at the moon
2. Laughter and the clink of glasses
3. Machine-gun fire in the dark
4. Sobs and heartfelt pleading
5. Knife blades softly slitting throats
6. The slow drip of blood from the dying
7. Stumps of tongues in wounded mouths
Edita Albahari
Illustration Nick Victor