War Literature and the Arts
Of The US Air Force Academy journal WLA just published 7 new poems of mine about my parents and their experiences in the German concentration and slave labor camps.
The journal also published a prose piece of mine about growing up with two survivors.
Here’s the link. Just click on the numbers in the image or on the word memoir.
Here’s one of the poems.
My Mother’s First Winter in Germany
My mother never thought she’d survive
that first winter in the slave labor camps.
She had no coat, no hat, no gloves,
just what she was wearing when the Germans
came to her home and killed my grandmother
and took my mother to the labor camps.
A German guard saved her life there.
He saw her struggling with her hands
to dig beets out of the frozen earth,
and he asked her if she could milk a cow.
She said, “Yes,” and he took her to the barn
where the cows were kept and raped her.
Later, the cows kept her from freezing
and gave my mother warm milk to drink
https://www.wlajournal.com/copy-of-draft-v37-landing-page
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