Afghanistan, July 1969 – Page 4

Boy leading a blind old man to a war Irsuy: of Sultan Mohammad 7 July. The garden planted by Bahan made by soyr up a straw: An mint plane tree casts deep shade while below light heated plantings of willows and white poplars, acacia and pines. Silver and green foliage and stark white trunks. A dense mulberry heavy with tree-colored fruit. A refreshing spot after a fiendish day. Poor P. he was wrong, obstinate and wrong I warned and was right. Triumphantly right. The layers of Christian charity, peeled off like a banana skin - or like our own first blackened then sloughed off then raw and pink and blotchy in the heat and the dust. Bagram is perhaps first to elude us. I don't think for one another attempt is worth while. I think of the New England coast, lobsters brine, fog, clams and cranberry arrongs.