Tag: genocide
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The Cenotaph
The street life went on all night outside their kitchen until their laughter-last shouts shattered the dawn.In Brooklyn, the rabbi reading the Times would only seethe shattered picture window,the blood on the rusty door,the broken mugs, two forkson the breakfast table,the rounds that formed holes,red balloons amidst the night clothing on the wall.“They did not…
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The Genocide Field
Trupie Pole, this Field of Death is called in the old Slavic tongue, shares its grief with the ruins of the Catholic Church, its relics long since relocated to the hollowed knots of oaks that populate a crooked forest. Stick scarecrows, their bag heads floating phantoms, protect the border. Even the trees grow stunted…