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A chessboard drawn by the child Kuba
arranged and thought by Erín Moure, from yadvashem.org
(it ends with a k as, if poems can be pictures, this is the figure of a human walking…)
If saying this
makes it “marred” or
it is
subject to copyright
or ejected
warped faction
my words or there is
no new
arrangement
no destiny
do not alter
do not remove
makes it “marred” or
it is
subject to copyright
or ejected
warped faction
my words or there is
no new
arrangement
no destiny
do not alter
do not remove
under a pigsty
in darkness
a chessboard
in a notebook
one leaf of paper
under a pigsty
darkness
breadcrumbs for pieces
the child Kuba
of Bóbrka
plays
chess with Lipa his twin
sad I am for you
stupid country
if saying it
makes for
less lonely or
souvenirs dissouts
a membrane is
earth’
s skin above or
stupid country
if saying it
makes for
less lonely or
souvenirs dissouts
a membrane is
earth’
s skin above or
under the pigsty
light
once a week
after Shabbat
one lit candle
Draw the furniture in our house!
said his mother Sara
And into the notebook
goes the furniture
Draw the horse in the road!
said Sara his mother
and into the notebook
goes the horse and road
its harness gleams
its hide brushed in
pencil
repeated small
agonies grey with
reason
do I speak or do
or simply
shelter
take shelter
or
endeavour
below the pigsagonies grey with
reason
do I speak or do
or simply
shelter
take shelter
or
endeavour
the chessboard
drawn and x-hatched
every 2nd
square a threshed
field
the child Kuba
later Jack
old
his chessboard
in darkness
no room to stand
beneath the pigs
Lipa Celia Sara Leon
Kuba
sad I am for you
stupid category
if saying
makes if for
less lonely or
for memory’s shouts
earth’s loam
is that a
treasure
oh yes it is
under the pigs stupid category
if saying
makes if for
less lonely or
for memory’s shouts
earth’s loam
is that a
treasure
oh yes it is
of farmer Tkacz
Ernsdorf
in darkness
edge Bóbrka
1942
2 yrs later
April 1944
прибытие
Красная Армия
1 wk to open eyes
to daylight
2 וואָכן
to wal
k
