This poem is taken from PN Review 227, Volume 42 Number 3, January - February 2016.
Calligraphies: August 2015
*
Fifty years later
the Ravensbrück survivor
got out her notebooks.
The Gestapo seized her trunks
of thesis chapters with her.
They were lost. She lived –
not a Jew, a resistant.
Ninety, she rewrote
dialogues from the Aurès
under the tents or the stars.
*
Under freezing rain
we walked back from the film, up
the rue de Charonne.
The doctor-turned-journalist
was an old comrade of hers,
got out of prison
...
Fifty years later
the Ravensbrück survivor
got out her notebooks.
The Gestapo seized her trunks
of thesis chapters with her.
They were lost. She lived –
not a Jew, a resistant.
Ninety, she rewrote
dialogues from the Aurès
under the tents or the stars.
*
Under freezing rain
we walked back from the film, up
the rue de Charonne.
The doctor-turned-journalist
was an old comrade of hers,
got out of prison
...
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