"Ricerca di luce"

Day of Remembrance

Death camps

Stench of death
in the field of mass killings
endless showers
and torment if dead
crowded, accumulated
no more human flesh
and the thick smoke, gray
crematoriums
and acrid smell
ash alive
and hunger, the lost dignity
eyes wide to much
massacre

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