So sorry readers., I rushed to post
forgetting that: “A poem is never finished,
only abandoned.”
—Gudrun
…
FROZEN SOULS Update
1
At 5:00 pm
guards would start collecting women;
children looked through bombed out eaves
to see stars, sometimes the moon.
Once there was a different kind of light—
something conscious.
A child inhaled the essence
like food she was not getting.
…
2
Rachel stretches. This 70 years old memory,
she thinks, and now another dangerous era.
The pandemic needs drastic measures.
And the horse porch hearth glows;
new beams mix with old.
We watch home movies.
The hitching post stands idle.
…
(c) Gudrun Mouw
April, 2020
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