flooded, v

en mémoire                                                                                          in memorium

i

it is less about his death

than his life

these memories that flood me

fifteen years since his

last breath, my final words,

since

in the still air, floating,

remembrance of a tragic life

.and words. only words. mine,

holding the hand of his

holocaust body

I whisper

- go

ii

a Holocaust ago

they played at the edge of the Danube

watched bodies float the blue

 children chanting

boy or girl? girl or boy?

but she would be the first to know

that girls always faced the sky

though to this day

she doesn't

know

w

 h

y

.