Denying the Holocaust

In sacred memory of the murdered millions International Holocaust Remembrance Day 1/27/2022 I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened and except for the overwhelming weight of evidence, I could. I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened, that...

Poetische Sprache

From: Hell Broke Loose: Poems on the Holocaust by Warren Gaston “There is nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”  Paul Celan* (1920-1970) The mind within my fingers suffers, I...

Riverleap

honoring the poet Paul Celan (1920-1970) “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”                                                 Friedrich Holderlin A poet’s breath, first final, held, expelled, what grave gravity lured him...

Sides

My side, the right side, favors me as I favor myself. Politics, perfect to a fault.

The Move

May we move out of the room we have inhabited, the comfortable room of our confinement, a room with one door and many mirrors, into a hallway with one mirror and many doors.