A PRAYER for Brody & Rhys
& for Bruno Schulz, shot and killed by Gestapo officer Karl Günther in 1942 while walking home through the Aryan quarter with a loaf of bread
Since 1954
& for Bruno Schulz, shot and killed by Gestapo officer Karl Günther in 1942 while walking home through the Aryan quarter with a loaf of bread
To survive the hostility, the insanity in public education, I stare straight into the fire, this pyre of books.
What do we owe to language in times of unimaginable violence? Poets linked to both Palestine and Texas help show us the way.
"rub your eyes & see nothin’..."
"You've built your beach homes..."
We sit by the window of the nursing home where her face can feel the sun.