Quite Winters
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Last published Thu, Mar 23, 2017
This is a poem I said when I visited the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg during the closed hours around 5 or 6pm and went around the grounds. Each brick resonated the screams and horrors of the area and I recited it for the people who lost their lives in the camp.
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