soprano winds leveling hungry gardens
evening violins laid to rest with strange pats
loud dragnets like a pouring rain in blinding twilights
children stoic under their parents' quixotic calmings
lampshades of suspicious parchment fostering incredulous laughs
evidence soon mounting against disbelief
ledgers bearing only numbers kept in wide official pockets
clouds evoking train cars passing high above beget whispers
of what can't be
IS

Germany 1938