Xray Technicians with Halo Traction Patient
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 inches, 2007

Sanctification
by Janne D. Graham, 2014
School of Music poet, Canberra, Australia
in response to Xray Technicians with Halo Traction Patient

It would be easy to see
the patient in bed 9
with the crown of thorns
as an image of sanctification
but in this makeshift ward
where all is camouflage
it is another type of halo
designed for spinal traction.