WILLIAM HEYEN
Sonnet and Haiku: Forms from the Reich University

from: Falling from Heaven: Holocaust Poems of a Jew and a Gentile (1991)




 I

 "A junior doctor should ...
 if possible, establish the origin,
 date of birth,
 and other particulars....
 After the killing of the Jew,
 the head of whom
 must not be damaged,
 he separates the head
 from the body and sends it
 to the appointed place
 in a specially prepared
 and well-sealed
 iron cannister filled
 with preservative." ...


 II

 This
 Cannister
 of words --
 Judaism
 suspended
 in formal-
 dehyde.


Literature of the Holocaust home page.
"My Holocaust Songs" by Heyen - from: Falling from Heaven: Holocaust Poems of a Jew and a Gentile (1991)
Heyen bio-bibliography


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