I smell my fingers and I am smelling his. Hands of smoke and gunpowder. Hands that promised they wouldn't, but did.
So the hands that said they never would begin finding grenade pins around their fingers, begin flipping through this album with soot under their nails
He was moved like that
across a minefield—
moved by a hand we cannot see,
a hand that is all our hands combined.
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964.