#1942 - between us and doom

 

1942

6.116

26.iv.25

between us and doom

ekphrastic for Yosl Bergner’s 1941 ‘pumpkins’

 

thin string and the window dark

 

hand torn holding

built to dark

 

have you seen the broken?

how they’ll twist, out of the pain

and a thousand years

then a thousand

 

the sky looks lower

as if there had once been colour

 

like a hand would reach down

but it won’t

 

there’s only one way to go