“Sotto Voce” by H.K. Rainey

A shadow, the length of quiet
sotto voce on Ravensbrück

gash of dawn
halved shell of sky

bone         ash
brutal grooves

halfshell of a mother’s loud arm to lull a child

a hammering of bullets
so many birch trees
naked on a dead hill                                                                     


Copyright © 2009, H.K. Rainey

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