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Fog at Sea

 

                FOG at SEA
 
  
   A light mist in the air, an autumnal sway,
   celtic, crossed and re-crossed, we're on our way.
  
   A watery calvary stares into our blemished
   air. Today we dead coagulate -
   thicken - our dying words still
   rampant on our cracked lips.
  
  
   Our vanishing life unfixed, unbridgeable
   Ebb, flow, neap, tide,
  ...

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A Vanishing Life

This vanishing life

cobbled streets and smoke and these long grey days of August

but at heart my orthodox soul grieves

amidst  these long centuries of despair

 all the bodies left there

 

landless

we were

our sons taken

anytime

to return

savages

 

constantinople

we  bury our dead at night

out of sight

of  these  converts

renega...

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daughter

this circling of her

new-born eyes

hidden narratives

of desire

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Fugue

two menorahs loosen

memory's chains

and restore the past

at last,


 

here in my head

dark star's velvet scream

is heard but

never seen

leave  the poor

as they were before

footsteps in the snow

 

 Paris 42

and the Gestapo

perform another round-up,

and a seemingly innocent Jew,

Paul Leon,  just visiting,

is tossed into a Mercedes

hard,

...

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