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Show "MOURNING PARENTS" granite, 1932, Kathe Kollwitz Such human postures: as if the woman scrubbed a floor and the man warmed himself by the fire he'd stoked for them. Silent with the assurance such chores provide. Except, their dress is formal, their arms wrap tightly about themselves like the sick or prayerful. Perhaps, they recall the miracle of Abraham, or the fortune of the first woman to see the stone rolled away. Then why do they pray? No ram will be loosed from its thicket. No body will be moved from its sepulchre. Yet they kneel, waiting for mercy, for a messenger. |