“Homosexual practices were actually very widespread in the camps. The prisoners, however, ostracized only those whom the SS marked with the pink triangle. The fate of the homosexuals in the concentration camps can only be described as ghastly… Theirs was an insoluble predicament and virtually all of them perished.†~ Eugen Kogon
Shadows in shadows,
turned the blackest night
next to sunlight on snow…
Ominous darkness, foreboding
and criminal.
Stains of history,
implacable
stubborn
doomed.
Stains in shadow,
stains in complicity,
stains in conspiracy…
Shadow takes us all,
suffocating
smothering…
Choking on
smoke rising
from the bodies,
Breathing in
your charred brothers and mothers and daughters and sisters and uncles and grandfathers and sons
our charred brothers and mothers and daughters and sisters and uncles and grandfathers and sons
burnt hair
flesh
bone
floating into the sky
onto the snow
mud or blood or ash, who can tell…
?
PVRTD
The New Project
November 2018
www.ALANILAGAN.com
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