Caroline Giles Banks
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Chain maille, shredded like old newsprint, covers up the carnage, the bedlam of civil war. Picasso’s canvas voraciously absorbs the din.
white, brown, pink…
frequencies of noise
color-coded
Shroud white. Funereal black. Grief gray. Tubes squeeze, brushes stroke a bull’s bellow, a horse’s bray, a soldier’s plea, a mother’s keen.
dagger tongues—
mouths agape
entreat and forewarn
Contemporary Haibun Online Issue #22.2 (August 2026)
Guernica
Painting by Pablo Picasso, 1937