Smithereens Press Chapbooks The Sea Path by Ciarán O'Rourke | 页面 30

The Killing March
(Miklós Radnóti, 1909-1944)
Each day permits
the old atrocities
again –
the necessary deaths,
the far-off scream
come near,
the itch of madness
spreading
on the hands and hair.
History is one
disaster, feeding
off another, or
what poems are made
to witness
and withstand.
You taught us that;
or someone did,
whose teaching stemmed
from what he saw,
from the hunger hushing
through him like a mist,

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