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The Oven
December 19, 2022
At the ring of the iron gate,
The clanging of metal against metal
they eat the snow off each other's
backs, they are walking silhouettes
of bones, their meat stretched
and fed to the bullets they package.
The chimneys always reek smoke,
The gray hovering above the atmosphere
Brothers breathing in sisters
Mothers breathing in daughters
They are part of the air they eat
Once laughing children
Who only cared about what was for
supper.
So dance, whoever you were
Dance on the streets of heaven
For you will never have to dance here
again.
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This piece is about the Holocaust, and embeds the thought of grief through different people.