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somewhere like Kiev
by Ryan NarceI saw once in an old book
from the time of Barbarossa
a picture of two
gypsy women
taken in 1942
by a Nazi youth rolling
through to somewhwere like
Kiev
their eyes were oddly shaded
in the grain
and the one with infant in arms
must have felt she was to pose
for them so
she held her child proudly,
with an aping
girlish, accordion smile
not at all seeing
the pistol pointed at her
from the left.
02/20/2002 Posted on 05/13/2011
Copyright © 2024 Ryan Narce
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Jim Benz on 07/29/11 at 07:02 PM I've seen pictures like this, but never tried to capture their complexity in a poem. I think you did an outstanding job. |
| Posted by Gail Wolper on 02/17/13 at 02:46 AM the intensity of this is painful. I reat 'gypsy' and 'nazi' and knew it was going to be awfully true. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 02/19/13 at 04:10 PM Not a high point in Human history. And later, the Germans reaped the whirlwind, when the Soviets invaded Berlin, where German women were raped and murdered in their hundreds...if not thousands. |
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