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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Max Heinegg's work has appeared in The Cortland Review, The American Journal of Poetry, December Magazine, Crab Creek Review, and Columbia Poetry Review, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. He is also a singer-songwriter. He live in Medford, MA, where he teaches English at Medford High School.
Poets Resist
Edited by Sarah Clark
December 17, 2018
Edited by Sarah Clark
December 17, 2018
Swastikas in the Snow
Cornell students found three in nine days, November, 2018
This morning, students walk past the symbol,
each time less sure of who
they were sharing meals with. Some asshole,
just fucking around. Fear enters the conversation.
So pretend that by the afternoon, when memory
warms the sign to water, because it is November
& not winter yet, that there will be no longer
so clear a signature, & that we can go back
to feeling hatred in the abstract, authorless.
But it was photographed. Unlike my dead
relatives, so entirely disappeared
I have to ask my father for their story & dates
of escape & what made it possible.
Name changing, Feilchenfeld to Heinegg,
planning, money for a ticket, & (not for all)
luck. A month later, Hitler crossed the border.
Those who heard no harbinger had days,
or less, or none.
A brutal thought has no noble future,
yet it pleases to remember
in another time, in another Ithaca
the poet called it justice to rain
arrows on disgrace, & only fitting
to reclaim a desecrated home.
This morning, my friends in Pittsburgh have
to persuade their children to take the bus.
This morning, my friends in Pittsburgh have to
persuade their children to take the bus.
This morning.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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