ILLEGAL

“…you tell me/with passion/that my parents were wrong/to escape —illegally— “

Isaac’s Lament

“…the time my dad protested the war…/At first people called him a traitor/but after a while they started joining him…”

grace

Memorial by Hungarian sculptor, Gyula Pauer, in Budapest, to Jews shot into the Danube, 1944-1945. Photo by Erik Klein.