Found Poem

Buried in the Ash

In January,
a woman
filthy, unrecognizable

tumbled off
their front-loader,
nearly forgotten,
anomalous

until august
when more
emerged.

The remains of a head:
Otto Friedlich,
also a different head:
Emy Roeder.

Survivors of war,
of Hitler.

"degenerate art"

This poem was constructed from the article "A Berlin Find, Survivors of Hitler's War" in the October 1st issue of the New York Times.