Child Separation

A documentary poem reacting to a film about the separation of children from their parents in Nazi camps

The child Fred is told by his mother: “You must not look back.”And he did not look back – and he survived – and his mother did not.Orpheus was not as strong you were, Fred – he looked back, the poor thing.On December 6th, 1938, in the middle of the ...
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Child Separation