Embers and Snowflakes Migrating
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My father was from Koenigsberg and a soldier in WWII
'Necklacing' was a form of killing opponenets during Apartheid, by throwing a rubber tyre around neck and arms and then to set the victim alight with petrol
My wife is from Johannesburg
Sudan is roughly equidistant from the Baltic and South Africa's plateu
Maybe one day...the madness will stop
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
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2017
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