10.19.2019

he shook himself

When the man
was pulled out
from
under the debris
of his bombed house,
he shook himself
and said:
Never again

At least not right away.

[Günter Kunert {1929-2019} 'About Some Who Survived' {trans. by Charlotte Melin}, from Twentieth-Century German Poetry, Michael Hofmann, ed.]

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