Devecser

Devecser Hope - Schnitkunst by Nigel A.  JAMES

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Beyond the Bitter Red

There are no limits to the number of guises that disasters can muster, but the poisonous tragedy that swept into Devecser, a small, once beautiful town in Hungary, was, most possibly, the worst kind of all!

Last year, a dam broke at a nearby aluminium plant releasing years of stored up lethal toxic waste to cascade through the town. What it left behind was a trail of dark red destruction that bore all of the qualities of life that had been!

Up in the high part of town, where the flood never reached, a semblance of normality has returned. Shops are once again open as usual, and some of them are even displaying their wares on the street. But there is a sort of pretence, a kind of ignoring; for down on the plane are the forests of trees that will never see blossom again, the earth that is dry of all life, the rivers and streams where fish can no longer swim, and, worst of all – the houses that no longer stand there! And it was there that I saw the impossible!

Whilst tanking my car last week, I saw, deep within the forest where children once played, a clump of golden daffodils. They were growing where no life can exist! Maybe, nature is stronger than everything we can throw at it, and maybe the daffodils will spread; and maybe, and who knows, the forest and the streams will, one day, return to the full green of life!

There are, after all, limits to our understanding of the ways of creation; I’m sure it has some surprises left up its sleeve! There could, after all, be something beyond the bitter red taste of destruction!

Vocabulary help -

Guises – Formen/Gestalt


Muster – (to muster) – aufbieten





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