Not In My Name  Bronze and Steel

Minor Collateral Damage Concrete and Steel

These two pieces were made in response to the first Iraq War, but they stand for all war.

Like many, I was appalled that we should go to war yet again and on such uncertain grounds. The repercussions of which go on and on.

A friend of mine wrote a poem with the same title; entirely coincidentally.

Not in My Name
“Not in my name
The click of the canopy
The precision minds
Trained and briefed
The planes loaded with weapons
Designed to destroy
Instructed remotely
Not in my name
The abject fear of the distant thunder
The shitting fear of the deafening roar
Shattered homes
Splattered bodies
Splintered lives
Broken homes
Scattered families
Refugees in flight
As the desert dust
Settles each night
And each day’s death tolls
Are estimated
By the Pentagon
Minor collateral damage
They will say
I cannot avoid the shame
If not the blame
There is no God to forgive
This hubris
This war is not in my name”
Judith Anthony
March 2003
reproduced from “An Anthony Anthology” with kind permission of the author