Thursday, 26 February 2015

Snapshot from the Warsaw Ghetto

Time trains derail
every now and again,

stranded on a sand-ended track.

Atavism prevails.
Ghost riders grasp
satchels, parcels, envelopes.

Eighty years later
no birds fly over chimney tops,
their detour  a permanent imprint.

I recall
the girl in the photograph
that snapped my unborn heart.



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