now, only silence

those students always chatting

watch without whisper,

‘Night and Fog‘ their silencer

Death Cap

iniquity, depravity
crimes against humanity

conflagration, radiation,
man made this abomination

enormity, deformity,
war’s enduring legacy

experimentation, humiliation
who needs victim’s approbation?

cessation, condemnation?
war has no such aspiration

obliteration, extermination,
then,
our final destination

Silent Witness

In hands made
to heal, did the shaking
of a child’s delight become
monstrous crystal ball

Stalin
Hitler
Akazu

revealed
as snow settled

into blood
stains seeping
across continents,

and out
through your
fingers?

Did you
catch the shadows
in a father’s benevolent eyes?

Is that why,

Ana,

you lie cold
beneath the snow,

silenced by your
own hand?

He could not hide
in plain sight
from you