Bearing Witness

The poet, Paul Celan, was described by his biographer John Felstiner, as a poet who wrote brilliantly about destruction, the Holocaust in Celan’s case. He had used poetry, the biographer said, to create “a language for the unsayable.”

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The Compact

True Story.

We have all heard of women who would not leave the house without their make up on. But, what if the house were on fire?

The smell of acrid smoke woke me up out of a dead sleep. Read the rest