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I descend from Prussian tradition full of frozen rain and fire’s marches

Lagoons and marshes my father and history know about the Baltic Sea where 
                                       
                                         amber 


swims ashore adorned jewelry of hearts and minds now on my lover’s slender 
                                        
                     neck


We share ancestral stories my wife and I of concentration camps and necklaced

innocents declared informers in Apartheid set alight with tyres in hateful petrol 
                            
                          fumes 


and Jewish screams to Genesis in the beginning that was the word when ashes 
                                  
                                  upon ashes 


held all Phoenix’s aground and violence and genocidal anger knows no
                          
                                         boundaries


In flaked photographs and winter ember days set aside for prayer to the 
              
                                                 Universe


avalanches and winter glows are waiting for the solitude of summer’s dawning


when Christmas is just another Sudan desert day abandoned by the God of 
                                          
                                  hellfire


Equidistance from Johannesburg and Koenigsberg belies the message flies away 
                                              
                                           from Peace 


lie lies and old recurrent news in which winter landscapes rarely light the hollow 
                                                           
                                                       eyed

children’s dreams but glowing coal burns brightly when the sky erupts and 
                                                                      
                                                                    hallowed

bombs fall from heaven and I declare snowflakes and ember a luxury problem in 
                                                                                  
                                                             my soul
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