"Memoria"

January 27th "Day of Memory"

Extermination camps

Stench of death
in the extermination camp
endless showers
and agonizing deaths
crowding, accumulated
no longer human flesh
and the thick smoke, gray
crematoria
and acrid smell
ash alive
and the hungry, the lost dignity
eyes wide
disbelief in much
massacre

Maristella Angeli
(From "The world upside down" Rupe Mutable Editions)