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 George Szirtes’s book of poems, Reel (Bloodaxe Books), was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2004. His New and Selected Poems will be published by Bloodaxe and Sheep Meadow Press this year. Email a friend >> Printable version >> |
Ross: Yellow Star
The eye is drawn to that single yellow star
that no wise man will follow.
The hunched men in caps, the grimacing woman
her eyes screwed up, cheeks hollow.
We look and look again until we burn a hole
in the paper. We strive to learn
from their resignation but it is beyond us.
We let them burn.  Henryk Ross, Transport of the sick and aged by horse-drawn carts, 1940-44. |
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