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Aug 1, 2023
A response to poets reading from ‘New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust’ (Rattlecast #192)
Palm fronds tango wind, sun-
light & silhouettes shuttering
like an old movie reel
on backs of eyelids,
sneaking a cold beer into peak heat
crevice of Philippine afternoon,
coming to terms with not coming
to terms with such poetic response
to holocaust cruelty–my silence held
in cicada electric hum, escaping slip-
stream of a leaden sleep as one
more strand unravels grip
& eyelids flicker wide.
First published by Written Tales in their chapbook ‘The Awakening’, June 2023
